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Breakfast with the Nikolides

A Virago Modern Classic
  • Author
    • Rumer Godden
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By the author of Black Narcissus and The River

'One of our best and most captivating novelists' PHILIP HENSHER

'She has distilled in simple, luminous prose the experiences of expatriate India, of childhood and its innocence' LUCY HUGHES-HALLET, SUNDAY TIMES

'[Godden has] a genius for storytelling' EVENING STANDARD

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 admiringly observing her glamorous, dignified neighbours, the Nikolides.

But just as the cracks in Emily's family home are papered over, the Pools strive to maintain an outward impression of respectability, and it is through the Nikolides that Emily is exposed to a world of adult deceit and attrition. And when her beloved dog dies, the event forces a confrontation and reveals to Emily that nothing in the town is quite as it seems . . .

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  • Published: Feb 07 2013
  • Pages: 240
  • 203 x 200mm
  • ISBN: 9781844088454
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Press Reviews

  • Lucy Hughes-Hallet

    Sunday Times
    She has distilled in simple, luminous prose the experiences of expatriate India, of childhood and its innocence
  • Rosie Thomas

    Guardian
    [Godden's] distinctive, poised and unsentimental books have never lost a shred of their almost hypnotic appeal
  • Evening Standard
    [Godden has] a genius for storytelling
  • Los Angeles Times
    All [Godden's novels] have one important thing in common: They are beautifully and simply wrought by a woman of depth and sensitivity