Book description
Tracy Quinn, daughter of a screen star and raised on film sets around
the world, returns to her adored family home, a country house named
China Court. Her grandmother's recent death has set in motion events
that threaten Tracy's future and the very existence of China Court. As
Tracy fights to save the old house, inhabited by five generations of
Quinns, the ancestors who created it are evoked: profligate, faithless
Jared; Eliza, the embittered spinster; and Ripsie, an outcast orphan who
rose to become the powerful matriarch. Rumer Godden (1907-98) 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 Calcutta
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.
