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Kingfishers Catch Fire

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Kingfishers Catch Fire
First edition (UK)
AuthorRumer Godden
LanguageEnglish
GenreComedy
PublisherMacmillan (UK)
Viking Press (US)
Publication date
1953
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

Kingfishers Catch Fire is a 1953 comedy novel by the British writer Rumer Godden. It was partly inspired by her own time living in Kashmir.[1] The title is taken from the poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Synopsis

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After she is widowed and left with little money and two children, an independent-minded Englishwoman chooses to live in India rather than return to Britain. She is idealistically attracted to living a peasant lifestyle in a small village. A series of cultural misunderstandings follow with the local inhabitants.

References

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  1. ^ Lassner p.106

Bibliography

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  • Lassner, Phyllis. Colonial Strangers: Women Writing the End of the British Empire. Rutgers University Press, 2004.
  • Le-Guilcher, Lucy. Rumer Godden: International and Intermodern Storyteller. Routledge, 2016.