![]() ![]() A Town Explores A Book 2022, celebrates 50 years since Rumer Godden’s. The destination is now close (festival runs 1-18 April 2022 in St Leonards on Sea) and it’s looking good. It’s turned out to be a fascinating journey. ![]() Dust wrapper exceptionally bright, with a small closed tear at the head of front wrap and rear wrap. This year the festival celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Rumer Godden’s young adult novel The Diddakoi. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price clipped dust wrapper. Nobody wants her, yet everyone thinks they know whats best. And suddenly Kizzy is alone in the world. And anyway, she's got Gran and her beloved horse, Joe. The bullies at school might hate her for it, but Kizzy's proud of her gypsy blood. ![]() This work won the 1972 Whitbread Award in the Children's Book category.Best known for the 1939 novel 'Black Narcissus', and its 1947 film adaptation, Godden authored over sixty works. Originally published: 1972 Kizzy is a diddakoi, a half-gypsy. Books as varied as Rumer Godden's The Diddakoi (1972, 9). ![]() Signed by Godden to the title page: 'with thanks for this wonderful award, Rumer Godden'.The story of an orphan Romani child called Kizzy, who faces persecution in a hostile, close-knit village community. mimetic stance towards characters construction, these narratives may still influence their. The first edition, first impression of this children's novel from English author Rumer Godden, in the publisher's original price clipped dust wrapper. A signed first edition of this children's novel about a Romani child from British author Rumer Godden. ![]()
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