A nurse came every few days to change bandages — and the English boyfriend’s mother (so happy to have a girl in the house with 4 sons), kept me feed…. I know plenty of bloggers love Rumer Godden, but I’ve never read anything by her, so I was excited and intrigued to find out whether she was going to turn out to be an author I liked. Best quality of read in spirit and in lyrical prose for the year and exactly what I needed for a gloomy spring. Professional Packaging – I always use Top Quality packaging products to ensure you receive your item in the condition it was sent.

the main and supporting characters were irresistibly showcased > especially the endearing five English children….Although Rumer Godden’s story is, by her own acknowledgement, semi-autobiographical, the truly artful bit is the way she probes the ambiguous margins - between innocence and experience, between England and France - and reveals such a rich seam of mingled pleasure and pain.

She leaves them in charge of Eliott, the lover of the proprietoress, who does his best, although he is preoccupied with problems of his own. The orchard seemed to us immense, and perhaps it was, for there were seven alleys of greengage trees alone; between them, even in that blazing summer, dew lay all day in the long grass.They are to name this time period, "Greengage Summer" after all the plums they ate in the hotel orchard. I wonder if Rumer Godden wrote for the stage; The Greengage Summer is perfectly structured in three acts with all the plot points in just the right places.