About the Book: A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep
In this sensitive and superbly crafted memoir, one of the foremost
English-language authors of modern times, Rumer Godden, chronicles her early
life in India and England. She paints a vivid picture of her childhood, in the
early 1900s—in Narayangunj, a village in undivided Bengal, where her father
worked with the Brahmaputra Steam Navigation Company—and her early forays into
writing. She movingly recounts the pain of being forced to return to England to
complete her education, and the horrors of being bullied by teachers and older
girls in a convent; but also her joy at