About the Book: Rungli- Rungliot
In the 1940s, as the Second World War raged elsewhere, author Rumer Godden lived
for a year in Rungli-Rungliot-an isolated tea estate three thousand feet down
the mountain from Darjeeling-with her two daughters, their nanny Giovanna, and
four Pekinese. Rungli-Rungliot, which means Thus Far and No Further, is a memory
of the time Godden spent there.
In this journal, Godden records her days in spare, unadorned words: the
endless, driving rain of monsoon and the impossibility of staying dry; seeing
her daughters anew, and finding that she has perhaps never seen them at all;
sowing an autumn garden that refuses to