A powerful novel about idealism and its consequences set in the Himalayas. Set in Kashmir, this is the story of Sophie, a young and idealistic Englishwoman with two young daughters who decides to set up house in a remote Indian Village. She finds a tumbledown house nestled into the foothills of the Himalayas and there plans to live peacefully and frugally and at one with the villagers around her. However, she is blissfully ignorant of the turmoil that her arrival produces with the villagers soon in fierce competition for her patronage. Sophie's cook is finally prompted to take action and the consequences of his innocent plotting are catastrophic. This is a poignant story of the conflict between idealism and reality which has strong parallels with Rumer Godden's own life and experiences in the foothills of the Kashmiri Himalaya.

Kingfishers Catch Fire

Godden, Rumor

Reprint Society

<p>New York: Viking Press, 1948. Book Club Edition, Hardbound, about 8.25 inches tall, 252 pages. Dust jacket design by Dana Saintsbury. A novel set in a London ballet school.</p>

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Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Viking Press

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Kingfishers Catch Fire

A Candle for St. Jude