Breakfast with the Nikolides: A Virago Modern Classic
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Breakfast with the Nikolides: A Virago Modern Classic
By (Author) Rumer Godden
Introduction by Rosie Thomas
Little, Brown Book Group
Virago Press Ltd
11th November 2025
6th August 2025
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
240
Width 126mm, Height 198mm, Spine 22mm
Description
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BESTSELLING AUTHOR ROSIE THOMAS
By the author of Black Narcissus and The River'One of our best and most captivating novelists' Philip Hensher'[Godden has] a genius for storytelling' Evening StandardFor Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to escape her mother's suffocating influence. Her days are spent exploring the canals and gardens of East Bengal, and admiringly observing her glamorous, dignified neighbours, the Nikolides. But just as the cracks in Emily's family home are papered over, the Pools strive to maintain an outward impression of respectability, and it is through the Nikolides that Emily is exposed to a world of adult deceit and attrition. And when her beloved dog dies, the event forces a confrontation and reveals to Emily that nothing in the town is quite as it seems . . .Reviews
She has distilled in simple, luminous prose the experiences of expatriate India, of childhood and its innocence -- Lucy Hughes-Hallet * Sunday Times *
[Godden's] distinctive, poised and unsentimental books have never lost a shred of their almost hypnotic appeal -- Rosie Thomas * Guardian *
[Godden has] a genius for storytelling * Evening Standard *
All [Godden's novels] have one important thing in common: They are beautifully and simply wrought by a woman of depth and sensitivity * Los Angeles Times *
Author Bio
Rumer Godden (1907-1998) was the acclaimed author of over sixty works of fiction and non-fiction for adults and children. Born in England, she and her siblings grew up in Narayanganj, India, and she later spent many years living in Kolkata and Kashmir. Several of her novels were made into films, including Black Narcissus, The Greengage Summer and The River, which was filmed by Jean Renoir. She was appointed OBE in 1993.
