Word: godden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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GYPSY, GYPSY-Rumer Godden-Little, Brown...
...Rumer Godden is an Englishwoman who lives in India. Last year her Black Narcissus (TIME, July 17, 1939) spun out the struggling efforts of a group of Anglican nuns to do good against the handicaps of their new convent (a quondam seraglio) and the tremendous face of Kinchinjunga which confronted their small and gentle souls. Reviewers' adjective for Black Narcissus was "enchanting." It will do for Gypsy, Gypsy...
...telling of this lurid, rather hopped-up tale Rumer Godden brings three saving graces: an acute sense of psychological tension and overtone, a coolly notable skill at prose, a peculiar ability in atmospheres (she seems particularly to be obsessed with the look of pale things in darkness). These talents alone may not make a first-rate novel: but they have a snaky power to hypnotize, and a certain distinction...