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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
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
- ^ Lassner p.106
Bibliography
- 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.
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