About the Book: A House with Four Rooms
Rumer Goddens follow-up to A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep—the evocative story
of her childhood and adolescence in early twentieth-century India—A House with
Four Rooms begins with her return to postwar England. With characteristic
honesty, wit and elegance, Rumer describes the London of the 1950s and trying to
make a living as a writer along with raising a family. Through her unwavering
commitment to the pen and steadily growing fame, she paints a fascinating
picture of the literary and film world that came to fete her. She tells stories
of her many houses, and her