Her father, Arthur Leigh Godden
(known to his children as Fa), had run away to India when his family wanted to make him a stockbroker. After a diversion to fight in the Boer War...
Textual Production
Rumer Godden
RG
's novel Breakfast with the Nikolides blends description of place (Narayanganj and the agricultural college near Dacca where she had worked for her father
) with a story drawing on her own life experience.
Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. Macmillan, 1987.
