MISS HAPPINESS AND MISS FLOWER

by Rumer Godden ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 20, 1961

Sent away from her home in India to live with her three cousins in England, home-sick little Nons found the ways of her relatives strange and difficult to understand. Certainly Belinda was no help, jealous of Nona's very presence in the household and intolerant of her mistakes. Then one day a package arrived for the two girls captaining two Japanese dolls, Miss Happiness and Miss Flower. Like Nona they were strangers in a new environment, and so immediately she felt a sympathetic kinship towards them. How the client wishes of the dolls inspire Tom to build them a Japanese house, and how they cause friendship to spring between the girls and to alleviate Nona's loneliness combine to make pleasant whimsical reading. Nobody writing today has quite the ""feel"" for dolls that Miss Godden reveals.

Pub Date: March 20, 1961

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Viking

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1961

Categories: FICTION