The real story behind Black Narcissus, the escapist fantasy that put its fearless author on the map
The real story behind Black Narcissus, the escapist fantasy that put its fearless author on the map A BBC adaptation will introduce Rumer Godden’s 1938 masterpiece – about the conflict between sensual and cerebral – to a new audience 27 December 2020 • 5:00pm Rumer Godden never changed the working habits she established in the Thirties Credit: Clifford Coffin/Conde Nast Collection Editorial The reflection in her mirror displeased novelist Rumer Godden in the late summer of 1938. Dispassionately, she itemised what she saw. Her eyes, she wrote, were serious, her forehead clever, but a ...
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