Rumer Godden

The activities, sorrows, and joys of a family of dolls living in an old doll house are related from the dolls' point of view.

A poor old woman is rewarded for her kindness when she throws back into the lake a little fish purchased for her dinner.

Lawyer Michael Dean is sent from London to India, the land of his birth to investigate the theft of an 11th century statue of the Hindu god Shiva. The assignment leads him into a romance with a woman archeologist. A look at Hindu culture.

There is never any room for Bonnie, the baby mouse, in the flower pot, so she goes looking for a new mouse house.

After she is orphaned, seven-year-old Kizzy, who has lived as a Romany, or Gypsy, all her life, must face a small English town's intolerance and find herself a new home and family.

In post-World War II India, three adolescent girls develop competing crushes on a young American veteran who lost a leg in combat. As their romances and rivalries deepen, the background of the Indian society, culture and environment influences all their personlities in subtle and symbolic ways.

Two generations of lovers struggle to determine whether practicality or passion should guide their fate.