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An Episode of Sparrows: A Virago Modern Classic
Rumer Godden
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By the author of Black Narcissus and The River
'A masterpiece of construction and utterly realistically convincing' JACQUELINE WILSON
'Godden's rich understanding of human nature, her humor and her beautiful prose inevitably leave one aglow' CHICAGO TRIBUNE
'Godden here tries her deft writing hand at landscaping a child's heart' TIME
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Someone has been digging up the private garden in the Square. Miss Angela Chesney of the Garden Committee is sure that a gang of local boys is to blame, but her sister, Olivia, isn't so sure. She wonders why the neighbourhood children - 'sparrows' she calls them - have to be locked out: don't they have a right to enjoy the garden too?
Nobody has any idea what sends Lovejoy Mason and her few friends in search of 'good garden earth'. Still less do they imagine where their investigation will lead them - to a struggling restaurant, a bombed-out church, and, at the heart of it all, a hidden garden.
'Only Rumer Godden could make a simple tale of a forbidden garden pulse with suspense' NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE BOOK REVIEW
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Praise for An Episode of Sparrows: A Virago Modern Classic
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A masterpiece of construction and utterly realistically convincing . . . Rumer Godden's writing is admired for many qualities...but I think her greatest strength is her accurate, unsentimental portrayal of childrenOnly Rumer Godden could make a simple tale of a forbidden garden pulse with suspense, could avoid the pitfalls of sentimentality, could breathe into such ordinary adults and ordinary children the quickness, the hope and the hopelessness of life itself. - New York Herald Tribune Book ReviewIt would be impossible for a reader not to feel better from reading the story ... Godden's rich understanding of human nature, her humor and her beautiful prose inevitably leave one aglow - Chicago Tribune[A]n extraordinarily gifted writer who manages to infuse her novels with a special magic of their own - Boston HeraldMay well prove the book of the year for those who are not ashamed to weep over the printed page . . . author Godden here tries her deft writing hand at landscaping a child's heart - TIMEA gentle, poignant story, poetically conceived with a fairy godmother ending. Recommended for all - Library JournalIt is a sentimental tale, well told, with an unlikely and entirely satisfactory ending - New Yorker
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