Ebook {Epub PDF} The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden

THE GREENGAGE SUMMER. by Rumer Godden; Jane Asher. Illustrated by Aafke Brouwer. Published by Folio Society. 1st thus. Slightly better than very good condition. Green cloth with attractive greengage decoration. The Greengage Summer was written about a summer in the champagne country of France and is based on fact. Norah Godden, Rumer’s mother had decided her four daughters had become selfish so she was going to take them to see the battlefields of the first world war. Sadly, she became ill on the train and was hospitalised. The girls had a summer of freedom. The Girl in the Dress Called Sin — The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden. By Mary Rizza. The youngsters in Rumer Godden’s novel The Greengage Summer, set in the s, are blessed with the usual requirements for an interesting fictional childhood — a set of quirky siblings and unconventional absent parents. Goaded into action by the brattish behaviour of her five children, Mama Grey whisks Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.

The atmosphere of a French summer is so vividly described, you can taste the greengages the children stuff themselves with, and smell the eccentric French plumbing. A gripping and poignant story of lost innocence, this book is based on actual events in Rumer Godden's youth, and is quite unforgettable. The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden had been praised by other bloggers but its tepid prose and rather unimaginative plot did nothing for me. It was all much ado about nothing for most of the novel. With their mother sick in hospital, thirteen-year old Cecil Grey (a girl, despite her name) and her siblings are left to their own devices at Les. Rumer Godden is an underrated, once very popular novelist, and her novel, The Greengage Summer, was adapted as a film in , starring Samantha York and Kenneth More. (I haven't seen the film, but it is on Youtube.) Godden brilliantly portrays the culture of outsiders, and in this book the outsiders are English children on vacation in.

The Greengage Summer is Rumer Godden’s tense, evocative portrait of love and deceit in the Champagne country of the Marne – which became a memorable film starring Kenneth More, Jane Asher and Susannah York. And in a new preface for this edition she explains how it came to be written. THE GREENGAGE SUMMER. by Rumer Godden; Jane Asher. Illustrated by Aafke Brouwer. Published by Folio Society. 1st thus. Slightly better than very good condition. Green cloth with attractive greengage decoration. The Greengage Summer (called The Loss of Innocence in the U.S.) is a British drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Kenneth More and Susannah York (in her first leading role). It was based on the novel The Greengage Summer () by Rumer Godden. Set in Épernay, in the Champagne region of France, it is the story of the transition of a teenage girl into womanhood.