Kingfishers Catch Fire

In this House of Brede: A Virago Modern Classic (Virago Modern Classics)

Author: Rumer Godden

Sophie Barrington Ward, without a husband, with two children and very little income, is faced with making a new life for herself. Friends beg her to go back to the security of Camberley. But the aunt who knows her best says, “Sophie will do as she likes. She always does.” What she likes, in this case, is to stay in India — and not the Westernized India either, but in a t….Read More

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