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Breakfast with the Nikolides

A Virago Modern Classic
By Rumer Godden
Series: Virago Modern Classics
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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 Standard Breakfast with the Nikolides was always to be the last hour... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Rumer Godden's coming-of-age story set in post-colonial East Bengal is a vivid and haunting classic.

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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 Standard Breakfast with the Nikolides was always to be the last hour of her childhood For 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 observing her neighbours, the Nikolides. While her parents paper over the cracks in the family home—and their veneer of respectability—the Nikolides offer a glimpse of glamour and sophistication. Then a tragic crisis plunges Emily into a world of adult deceit, and reveals that nothing in the community is quite as it seems...

Series: Virago Modern Classics

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780349017525

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 August 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Virago Press Ltd

Contributors:

  • Introduction by Rosie Thomas

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 194g

Pages: 240

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Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Rumer Godden Series: Virago Modern Classics

About the Author

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.

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