Breakfast with the Nikolides

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| publisher = Peter Davies (UK)
Little, Brown (US)

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Breakfast with the Nikolides is a 1942 novel by the British writer Rumer Godden.Lassner p.86 Like much of her work the story takes place in British India, where she lived for many years.

Synopsis

After a decade apart, while she has been working in Paris and bringing up the children, a couple are reunited in India during the Second World War. They continue to quarrel as she wants to leave India while he is deeply committed to it.

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Bibliography

  • Lassner, Phyllis. Colonial Strangers: Women Writing the End of the British Empire. Rutgers University Press, 2004.
  • Le-Guilcher, Lucy. Rumer Godden: International and Intermodern Storyteller. Routledge, 2016.

Category:1942 British novels

Category:Novels by Rumer Godden

Category:Novels set in British India

Category:Peter Davies books

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