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Breakfast with the Nikolides

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Breakfast with the Nikolides
First edition (UK)
AuthorRumer Godden
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama
PublisherPeter Davies (UK)
Little, Brown (US)
Publication date
1942
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

Breakfast with the Nikolides is a 1942 novel by the British writer Rumer Godden.[1] Like much of her work the story takes place in British India, where she lived for many years.

Synopsis

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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.

References

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  1. ^ Lassner p.86

Bibliography

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  • 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.