An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden

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An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden

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Summary

In Catford Street, London, there was not as much as a blade of grass, nothing that was not man-made. This book tells the story of how two of the street children made a garden in these unpromising surroundings. By the author of "The Greengage Summer" and "A House With Four Rooms".

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An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden

An emergency meeting of the Mortimer Square Garden Committee has been convened to discuss a most alarming matter: Someone has been digging in the garden and making off with buckets of dirt. Miss Angela Chesney is sure that a gang of boys from run-down Catford Street is to blame. But Angela's sister, Olivia, isn't so sure. Olivia has always wondered why the neighborhood children--the sparrows she sometimes watches from the window of her house--are kept out of the private garden. Don't they have a right to enjoy the place, too? But neither Angela nor Olivia has any idea what sent the neighborhood waif Lovejoy Mason and her few friends in search of good, rich earth. Still less do they imagine where their investigation of the incident will lead them--to a struggling restaurant, a bombed-out church, and at the heart of it all, a hidden garden.

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Rumer Godden (1907-98) was born in England, started writing fiction as an adult while living in India, and continued to write successfully after returning to England. In This House of Brede (Loyola Classics), Black Narcissus, The River, and other books are among her works.

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ISBN 13 9780330327794
ISBN 10 0330327798
Title An Episode of Sparrows
Author Rumer Godden
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Year published 1993-05-14
Number of pages 192
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.