Rumer Godden: Breakfast with the Nikolides, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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INTRODUCED BY ROSIE THOMAS

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 glamorous 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. Then a crisis strikes, revealing 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

'A heart-wrenchingly truthful evocation of the transition from child to adult, combined with Godden's pitch-perfect descriptions' Guardian

'A genius for storytelling' Evening Standard