The Peacock Spring
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Anne Harvey
THE PEACOCK SPRING
RUMER GODDEN was one of Britain’s most distinguished authors with many justly famous and much-loved books for both adults and children to her credit, including Black Narcissus, The Greengage Summer and The River.
She was awarded the OBE in 1993 and died in 1998, aged ninety.
Also by Rumer Godden
Pippa Passes
Coromandel Sea Change
The River
In This House of Brede
Episode of Sparrows
Black Narcissus
The Greengage Summer
Cromartie v. the God Shiva
Breakfast with the Nikolides
Kingfishers Catch Fire
ENDNOTE
1 Translation: ‘Sleep, baby, sleep/Butter, bread and sugar. Eating, drinking is over. My baby will sleep. /Sleep, baby, sleep.’ ‘Nini’ is baby talk for sleep, like ‘fait dodo’ in French.
First published 1975 by Macmillan London
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