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Virago Modern Classics, Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Adventure
Rumer Godden's coming-of-age story set in post-colonial East Bengal is a vivid and haunting classic.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BESTSELLING AUTHOR ROSIE THOMAS
By the author of Black Narcissus and The River
'One of our best and most captivating novelists' Philip Hensher
'[Godden has] a genius for storytelling' Evening Standard
Breakfast with the Nikolides was always to be the last hour of her childhood
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 neighbours, the Nikolides. While her parents paper over the cracks in the family home - and their veneer of respectability - the Nikolides offer a glimpse of glamour and sophistication. Then a tragic crisis plunges Emily into a world of adult deceit, and reveals that nothing in the community is quite as it seems . . .
Praise for Breakfast with the Nikolides: A Virago Modern Classic
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This is a heart-wrenchingly truthful evocation of the transition from child to adult, combined with Godden's pitch-perfect descriptions of the sights, smells and sounds of expatriate India - Guardian
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She has distilled in simple, luminous prose the experiences of expatriate India, of childhood and its innocence - Sunday Times
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[Godden's] distinctive, poised and unsentimental books have never lost a shred of their almost hypnotic appeal - Guardian
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[Godden has] a genius for storytelling - Evening Standard
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All [Godden's novels] have one important thing in common: They are beautifully and simply wrought by a woman of depth and sensitivity - Los Angeles Times
Rumer Godden
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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