The basis for Powell & Pressburger\"s Academy Award-winning 1947 film, Rumer Godden\"s much-admired classic novel tells the story of a sisterhood of nuns on a mission in Himalayan India. High in the Himalayas near Darjeeling, the old mountaintop palace shines like a jewel....

The Greengage Summer is Rumer Godden\"s tense, evocative portrait of love and deceit in the Champagne region of provincial France, which became a memorable film starring Kenneth More and Susannah York....

Grizel Dane, a bold young servicewoman in the US army, arrives at the London home of her great-uncle Sir Rollo Dane seeking refuge from the chaos of wartime. Through the old man, Grizel learns the surprising history of the Dane family and Lark Ingoldsby....

\"The motto was Pax but the word was set in a circle of thorns. Peace, but what a strange peace, made of unremitting toil and effort.\" Bruised by tragedy, Philippa Talbot leaves behind a successful career with the civil service for a new calling: to join an enclosed order of Benedictine nuns....

Harriet is caught between two worlds: her older sister is no longer a playmate, her brother is still a little boy....

A tense, evocative, portrait of love and deceit set during one long hot summer in France, The Greengage Summer is a hauntingly beautiful coming-of-age story by from Rumer Godden, the author of Black Narcissus, now a major BBC drama series....

Всемирно известная серия \"Избранные романы\" представляет собой коллекцию мировых бестселлеров в специальной редакции Ридерз Дайджест. Четыре романа известных современных авторов, представленные в каждом томе, тронут Вас, заинтригуют и развлекут....

Doone Penny is a child with passion, and a gift - he is a born dancer, a ballet genius in the making. But though others may recognise the flame that burns in Doone, there is little encouragement from his family. His mother agonises over his pretty sister Crystal, also a dancer and full of self-regard....

High in the Himalayas near Darjeeling, the old mountaintop palace shines like a jewel. When it was the General\"s \"harem\" palace, richly dressed ladies wandered the windswept terraces; at night, music floated out over the villages and gorges. Now, the General\"s son has bestowed it on an order of nuns, the Sisters of Mary....

For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to escape her mother\'s suffocating influence. Her days are spent exploring the canals and gardens of East Bengal, and admiringly observing her glamorous, dignified neighbours, the Nikolides....