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Reviews
Extraordinarily gifted writer who manages to infuse her novels with a special magic of their own
It is a sentimental tale, well told, with an unlikely and entirely satisfactory ending
It's a masterpiece of construction and utterly, realistically convincing - though it has a fairytale element too. 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 fifty 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 the same sense of total satisfaction
A gentle, poignant story, poetically conceived with a fairy godmother ending. Recommended for all
It has a dizzying cast of characters, radiating out from the inhabitants of a once-genteel London residential square to the residents of the teeming commercial streets beyond
It would be impossible for a reader not to feel better from reading the story . . . her rich understanding of human nature, her humor and her beautiful prose inevitably leave one aglow
May well prove the book of the year for those who are not ashamed to weep over the printed page . . . author Godden here tries her deft writing hand at landscaping a child's heart
