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Jan 1, 1989 · A House With Four Rooms is an autobiographical text about Rumer Godden's childhood and then her married life in India. It is a very interesting book about life in India when it was under the British.
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Jun 24, 2012 · Four Rooms starts with Godden’s permanent return to England, and follows her through her ongoing struggles as a divorced mother of two young children, working to support them with her pen. Lots of name-dropping ensues as Rumer Godden’s books increasingly grow in popularity and she starts to move in exalted literary and film-making circles ...
Jan 1, 1989 · A House With Four Rooms. Hardcover – January 1, 1989. The novelist recalls her return to England from India after World War II, her marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and her literary success, in the second volume of her memoirs. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.
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- Rumer Godden
- Rumer Godden
- Teacher, Mother, Writer
- The River and Working with Jean Renoir
- Savoring Success
- A New Husband and A Spiritual Search
Rumer touches upon the caste system of India in those days, which resulted in the bifurcation of work done by domestic help and her learning to depend on them, from her childhood years.She is frank enough to admit to her lack of skills in the housekeeping department and quickly evolves a convenient philosophy, “Never do anything that someone else a...
How The River attracts the attention of Jean Renoir, “simply one of the finest film directors in the world,” in the words of Spencer, makes for an absorbing part of this autobiography.Like his other contemporaries, Renoir had also made the shift to Hollywood from Europe, and felt that Hollywood would expect him to make films similar to what he was ...
In her autobiography, Rumer speaks unabashedly about her stepping foot into the life of luxury that only the very well-known writers can dream of. She writes: “With Macmillan as my publisher, I seemed to enter into a new dimension. Eventually it was not only lunches at Boulestin’s, and its like or in the boardroom, it was dinner in private houses o...
The book heralds the arrival of James Haynes-Dixon, who worms his way into Rumer’s life and heart, finally winding up as her second husband.From her descriptions, he is clearly the opposite of what her first husband has been and seems to be the man for all seasons for Rumer and her two girls. Rumer also speaks of her inner spiritual search, which s...
Jan 1, 1989 · A House With Four Rooms. Paperback – January 1, 1989. The novelist recalls her return to England from India after World War II, her marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and her literary success, in the second volume of her memoirs. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.
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Dec 16, 2019 · Esther Rutter on why A House with Four Rooms by Rumer Godden is the best book of 1989. Rumer Godden has been one of my favourite authors ever since I stumbled across her story ‘The Diddakoi’ in a Reader’s Digest on my grandparent’s bookshelf.
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Transplanted from India to England, eight-year-old Nona Fells finds comfort in two Japanese dolls sent to her by her grandmother in Miss Happiness and Miss Flower by Rumer Godden, first...
