New Releases by Rumer Godden

After Cat has her four kittens, she has to find suitable homes for them.

Adolescence.

This book portrays the enormous diversity of life styles and the wide ranging ethnic differences among the peoples of India.

The Godden sisters "have written of five years in their early lives when they were sent back to India to escape the bombs of W.W.I. They recall their lives in the village and its environs in what is now East Pakistan." Library J.

Modern love story, set in Cornwall and interwoven with the living past of five generations of the Quin family, and illustrative of life - as Chaucer says - as a "thinne subtil knittinge of thinges". A medieval book of hours plays a part in the plot.

An illustrated retelling of the legend of Saint Jerome and the lion that he sheltered in his monastery.

A tiny doll lives an adventurous life in a little boy''s pocket and as a member of a gang of boys.

Effect of the arrival of two English airmen on the people of a remote Pacific Island.

The mousewife was the perfect little housewife but she wanted more. One day a captive dove was brought to live in the house and the mousewife learns the meaning of altruism.

In this second autobiography the author describes the progression of her life as she leaves India with her two daughters and settles in London. She tells of her house moves, relationships and writing with characteristic wit and humour.