Ebook {Epub PDF} An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden

Rumer Godden’s books are admired for many qualities but I think her greatest strength is her accurate, unsentimental portrayal of children. Lovejoy, Tip and Sparkey were so real to me that they have stayed alive in my head for more than 50 years An Episode of Sparrows was the first book that made me cry when I was ten. I cried all over again at this recent reading of the story — and I closed the book with /5(53).  · “Rumer Godden’s work needs no praise. Her place in the literary world is high and secure. But perhaps one may say that in none of her books are her profound understanding and light touch more skillfully combined than in this poignant, tender, and subtly strong Episode of Sparrows.”—Christian Science Monitor. From the PublisherBrand: New York Review Books. “An Episode of Sparrows” is just one episode in the aftermath of the London bombing from the life of a young child, Lovejoy Mason, that will eventually have a huge impact upon Olivia, an older woman living in her sister Angela's shadow/5.

An Episode of Sparrows is a novel written in by Rumer Godden. It was re-issued in in The New York Review Children's Collection. Plot summary. The novel focuses on children in Catford Street, a working-class street in South London, with much stone and asphalt but only a few patches of green. An Episode of Sparrows (Hardcover) Published October 31st by The New York Review Children's Collection. Hardcover, pages. Author (s): Rumer Godden. ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: English. Rumer Godden's An Episode of Sparrows, first published in , focuses on the roaming children — the 'sparrows' — of a shabby street in bomb-torn London. When ten-year-old Lovejoy Mason.

But An Episode of Sparrows is much more like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith; it's not really a kid's book, or at least it is far more "gritty" than most parents might look for. So if you come to it from that point of view, this is a 4- or 5-star novel. “Rumer Godden’s work needs no praise. Her place in the literary world is high and secure. But perhaps one may say that in none of her books are her profound understanding and light touch more skillfully combined than in this poignant, tender, and subtly strong Episode of Sparrows.”—Christian Science Monitor. From the Publisher. “An Episode of Sparrows” is just one episode in the aftermath of the London bombing from the life of a young child, Lovejoy Mason, that will eventually have a huge impact upon Olivia, an older woman living in her sister Angela's shadow.