The Diddakoi by Rumer Godden

The Diddakoi by Rumer Godden

'Exquisitely written and addictively dark. Sheer perfection' Clare Mackintosh

The gripping, twisty psychological suspense from the author of the Sunday Times top 5 bestseller Our House

'I can't take my eyes off the water. Can you?'

It's summer when Elm Hill lido opens, having stood empty for years. For Natalie Steele - wife, mother, teacher - it offers freedom from the tightly controlled routines of work and family. Especially when it leads her to Lara Channing, a charismatic former actress with a lavish bohemian lifestyle, who seems all too happy to invite Natalie into her elite circle.

Soon Natalie is spending long days at the pool, socializing with new friends and basking in a popularity she didn't know she'd been missing. Real life, and the person she used to be, begins to feel very far away.

But is such a change in fortunes too good to be true? Why are dark memories of a summer long ago now threatening to surface? And, without realizing, could Natalie have been swept dangerously out of her depth?

'A clever, claustrophobic thriller' Fabulous Magazine

'A compulsive psychological thriller that will give you shivers' Sunday Mirror

'Tautly plotted - a psychological drama with edge' Good Housekeeping

'Will keep you hooked with unexpected twists and turns until the end' Candis

Godden, Rumer: - Rumer Godden (1907-1998) was the author of more than sixty works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children's literature, and is considered by many to be one of the foremost English language writers of the twentieth century. Born in Sussex, England, she moved with her family to Narayanganj, colonial India, now Bangladesh, when she was six months old. Godden began her writing career with Chinese Puzzle in 1936 and achieved international fame three years later with her third book, Black Narcissus. A number of her novels were inspired by her nearly four decades of life in India, including The River, Kingfishers Catch Fire, Breakfast with the Nikolides, and her final work, Cromartie vs. the God Shiva, published in 1997. She returned to the United Kingdom for good at the end of World War II and continued her prolific literary career with the acclaimed novels The Greengage Summer, In This House of Brede, and numerous others. Godden won the Whitbread Award for children's literature in 1972, and in 1993 she was named an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Nine of her novels have been made into motion pictures. She died at the age of ninety in Dumfriesshire, UK.

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ISBN 13	9780140307535
ISBN 10	0140307532
Title	The Diddakoi
Author	Rumer Godden
Series	Puffin Books
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Random House Children's UK
Year published	1975-03-27
Number of pages	144
Prizes	Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Children's Book Category 1972
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