![]() ![]() Spending much of her life in India, a number of her novels are also set there-with vivid attention paid to the details of her characters’ surroundings. Like Black Narcissus, Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy and In This House of Brede focus on women in religious communities. Interested in the Catholic Church, and eventually converting, many of her later novels portray clergymen and women favorably. While still running the studio, she published her first novel in 1936 and continued to write-often basing her books on real-life experience. Before writing novels, Godden trained as a dancer and even opened a dance studio in Calcutta in 1925. ![]() ![]() Though she was sent to England for schooling, her parents brought her back to India at the start of World War I. The British author was born in Sussex in 1907, but grew up in what is now known as Bangladesh. Most notable is her novel Black Narcissus, which was adapted into a 1947 film starring Deborah Kerr, and into a 2020 limited series on FX. We can't stop watching the new series-and to give us something else to do in between binge-watches, we're devouring all of Rumer Godden's books. Rumer Godden (born Margaret Rumer Godden) authored more than 60 books in her lifetime. ![]()
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