Blurb:
'Rumer Godden is a master story teller, a genius at conveying a sense of place' Observer

For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to escape her mother's suffocating influence. Her days are spent exploring the canals and gardens of East Bengal, and admiringly observing her glamorous, dignified neighbours, the Nikolides. But just as the cracks in Emily's family home are papered over, the Pools strive to maintain an outward impression of respectability, and it is through the Nikolides that Emily is exposed to a world of adult deceit and attrition. And when her beloved dog dies, the event forces a confrontation and reveals to Emily that nothing in the town is quite as it seems . . .

'She has distilled in simple, luminous prose the experiences of expatriate India, of childhood and its innocence' Lucy Hughes-Hallet ― Sunday Times

BREAKFAST WITH THE NIKOLIDES by RUMER GODDEN (1942) | ISBN: 1844088456 / 9781844088454 (UK PB (2013) | Publisher: Virago Modern Classics

Read, and was arrested by this wonderful book, a great many years ago after seeing the film 'Black Narcissus' based on Godden's book, of the same name. Wanted to BookCross this to circulate it to an audience that may not know Rumer Godden's writing. It is both searing, and touching. Rather wonderful.

From the introduction by Rosie Thomas:
"In the decades since they were written, Runer Godden's Indian novels have floated in and out of fashion, yet whatever tidal shifts have affected current tastes in fiction these distinctive, delicately poised and entirely unsentimental books have never lost a shred of their almost hypnotic appeal."

Yup! Enjoy. . .

Released directly into the hands of another lovely BookCrosser, bookfrogster, at a wonderful Old Gang, of Edinburgh BookCrossers Meet-Up. Destined for the LFL in the Meadows, one of the huge parklands in the centre of Edinburgh. Here we are, with the closing of the Filmhouse Cafe Bar back at Biblos where we used to meet-up years ago. Hugs rainbow3

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Take me with you, read me, and please leave a note about my whereabouts on the website - anonymously, if you prefer.

Then, please release me again so I can travel on, cheers rainbow3.

Caught at the Old Gang Meet up to wild release in the Meadows. Probably this weekend.

Set free in the Little Free Library. Happy reading!