Breakfast with the Nikolides: A Virago Modern Classic

Name: Breakfast with the Nikolides: A Virago Modern Classic
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Rumer Godden

Feb 2013 · Hachette UK

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BESTSELLING AUTHOR ROSIE THOMAS

By the author of Black Narcissus and The River

'One of our best and most captivating novelists' Philip Hensher

'[Godden has] a genius for storytelling' Evening Standard

Breakfast with the Nikolides was always to be the last hour of her childhood

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 observing her neighbours, the Nikolides. While her parents paper over the cracks in the family home - and their veneer of respectability - the Nikolides offer a glimpse of glamour and sophistication. Then a tragic crisis plunges Emily into a world of adult deceit, and reveals that nothing in the community is quite as it seems . . .

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BESTSELLING AUTHOR ROSIE THOMAS By the author of Black Narcissus and The River 'One of our best and most captivating novelists' Philip Hensher '[Godden has] a genius for storytelling' Evening Standard Breakfast with the Nikolides was always to be the last hour of her chil...

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About the author

Rumer Godden (1907-1998) was the acclaimed author of over sixty works of fiction and non-fiction for adults and children. Born in England, she and her siblings grew up in Narayanganj, India, and she later spent many years living in Kolkata and Kashmir. Several of her novels were made into films, including Black Narcissus, The Greengage Summer and The River, which was filmed by Jean Renoir. She was appointed OBE in 1993.

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