Publication Date: 12/11/2020 ISBN: 9780349014043 Category:

Black Narcissus

Rumer Godden, Rosie Thomas

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Publication Date: 12/11/2020 ISBN: 9780349014043 Category:
Hardback

£14.99

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NOW A HAUNTING BBC DRAMA, STARRING GEMMA ARTERTON AND DIANA RIGG

‘A remarkable and beautiful book’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

‘I envy anyone reading it for the first time’ AMANDA COE

‘[Godden has] a genius for storytelling’ EVENING STANDARD

High in the Himalayas, the mountaintop palace shines like a jewel. Built for the General’s harem, laughter and music once floated out over the gorge. Now it sits abandoned, windswept and haunting.

The palace is bestowed to the Sisters of Mary, and what was once known as ‘the House of Women’ becomes the Convent of St Faith. Close to the heavens, the nuns feel inspired, working fervently to establish their school and hospital. But as the isolation and emptiness of the mountain become increasingly unsettling, passions long repressed emerge with tragic consequences . . .

Publisher Review

[A] beautiful novel * Daily Mail * Like Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca or Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, Black Narcissus is one of those rare novels that combines huge popular appeal with emotional subtlety and literary skill -- Anne Chisholm A remarkable novel. One in a thousand * Observer * Godden's wonderful book sets out a complex vision of the variety, necessity and danger of desire, rendered into a story that is completely pleasurable. I envy anyone reading it for the first time. -- Amanda Coe A remarkable and beautiful book * Daily Telegraph *

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