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The Peacock Spring (eBook)
Short Description for The Peacock SpringNot a usual marker, but a feather, a tip feather from a peacock's train, lucently blue and green ...
Full description- Publisher: Pan Books
- Published: 15 June 2011
- Format: eBook 260 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Miscellaneous Items | General
- ISBN 13: 9781447206354 ISBN 10: 1447206355
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Full description for The Peacock Spring
Una and her younger sister Hal have been abruptly summoned to live in New Delhi by their diplomat father Sir Edward Gwithiam. From the first meeting with their new tutor and companion, the beautiful Eurasian Alix Lamont, Una senses a hidden motive to their presence. But through the pain of the months to come, the poetry and logic of India do not leave Una untouched. And it begins with the feather, a promise of something genuine and precious ...In The Peacock Spring Rumer Godden evokes the magic of an India she knows so well and all the bitter sweetness of loyalty and love. And in the preface she explains how this perennially popular novel came to be written. 'One of the finest English novelists' Orville Prescott

