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An Episode of Sparrows: A Virago Modern Classic (Virago Modern Classics) - Softcover

Buch 10 von 15: New York Review Children's Collection

Godden, Rumer

 
9780349017518: An Episode of Sparrows: A Virago Modern Classic (Virago Modern Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0349017514 ISBN 13: 9780349017518
Verlag: Virago, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

From the esteemed author of Black Narcissus and The River, comes another captivating classic novel about a poor girl striving to create beauty among the bombsites of postwar London.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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INTRODUCED BY JACQUELINE WILSON

To Angela they were sparrows because they were cheeky, cocky, common as sparrows; to Olivia nothing was common . . .

Someone has been digging up the private garden in gracious Mortimer Square. Miss Angela Chesney of the Garden Committee is certain that a gang of local boys is to blame, but her sister Olivia isn't so sure. Watching the teeming city from her window, she wonders why the neighbourhood children - 'sparrows', she calls them - have to be locked out.

Lovejoy Mason - fierce, scrappy, unloved - knows how it feels to be an outsider. But a stolen packet of cornflower seeds sends her in search of some 'good garden earth' - and on a journey that will lead to a struggling restaurant, a bombed-out church, and, at the heart of it all, a hidden garden.

'A masterpiece' JACQUELINE WILSON
'Godden's rich understanding of human nature, her humour and her beautiful prose inevitably leave one aglow' CHICAGO TRIBUNE
'Godden here tries her deft writing hand at landscaping a child's heart' TIME

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Verlag
Virago
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0349017514
ISBN 13 
9780349017518
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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