Spoilers: major plot point for In This House of Brede. If you haven’t read the novel and don’t like to know about important plot points ahead of time, then do not read this post. You have been warned. In Rumer Godden’s novel In This House of Brede...
Sally Thomas shared an interesting essay, “Nostalgia for a Life Never Lived and The Work of Rumer Godden” by Olena Jennings. As the title suggests, the author is nostalgic for the feeling she had when she first read Rumer Godden as a teenager. I’m...
On Monday and Tuesday I read The Kitchen Madonna by Rumer Godden to Isabella and Sophia. (Ben and Anthony listened a bit too, but were in and out. The story was too slow to captivate them for that long.) This is one of my favorite Godden stories and...
