Godden, Rumer 1907-1998

In this house of Brede by Rumer Godden( Book )
32 editions published between 1969 and 2005 in 3 languages and held by 2,639 libraries worldwide
Set in England, this is a novel about a successful career woman in her forties who renounces the world to enter Brede monastery, a cloistered order of English Benedictine nuns and what happens to her thereafter.

An episode of sparrows, a novel by Rumer Godden( Book )
57 editions published between 1955 and 2004 in 6 languages and held by 2,434 libraries worldwide
The story of how two London slum children made a garden from a packet of cornflower seeds and how it changed the lives of rich and poor.

Two under the Indian sun by Jon Godden( Book )
46 editions published between 1966 and 1991 in 4 languages and held by 2,187 libraries worldwide
The Godden sisters "have written of five years in their early lives when they were sent back to India to escape the bombs of W.W.I. They recall their lives in the village and its environs in what is now East Pakistan." Library J.

The story of Holly & Ivy by Rumer Godden( Book )
41 editions published between 1900 and 2010 in 6 languages and held by 2,164 libraries worldwide
Orphaned Ivy finds her Christmas wish fulfilled with the help of a lonely couple and a doll named Holly.

The battle of the Villa Fiorita by Rumer Godden( Book )
29 editions published between 1963 and 1992 in 6 languages and held by 1,997 libraries worldwide
When their mother runs off with another man, young Caddie and Hugh journey from London to Italy to bring their mother home.

The greengage summer, a novel by Rumer Godden( Book )
71 editions published between 1957 and 2008 in 8 languages and held by 1,798 libraries worldwide
Five naive English children, thrown on their own in a French inn, find themselves surrounded by mysterious and violent activities.

The dolls' house by Rumer Godden( Book )
61 editions published between 1947 and 2008 in 6 languages and held by 1,798 libraries worldwide
The activities, sorrows, and joys of a family of dolls living in an old doll house are related from the dolls' point of view.

The peacock spring by Rumer Godden( Book )
34 editions published between 1975 and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 1,757 libraries worldwide
A novel about two English school girls, who are summoned from England to New Delhi by their diplomat father. Una, the older sister, meets a young man, and a secret love develops.

China Court: the hours of a country house; a novel by Rumer Godden( Book )
6 editions published in 1961 in English and held by 1,735 libraries worldwide
Modern love story, set in Cornwall and interwoven with the living past of five generations of the Quin family, and illustrative of life - as Chaucer says - as a "thinne subtil knittinge of thinges". A medieval book of hours plays a part in the plot.

Five for sorrow, ten for joy by Rumer Godden( Book )
18 editions published between 1979 and 2007 in English and held by 1,642 libraries worldwide
In this new novel, the author returns to the theme of the religious life, and now moves to the world of the French Dominican Sisters of Béthanie, who work among the whores, drug addicts, and vagrants of the great cities. The heroine is Lise, an English girl who, after the liberation of Paris, falls into bad company and, after a period in one of Paris's smartest brothels, becomes a successful madam -- La Balafrée, the Scarred One.