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When a suspicious British soldier leads a searching party to the house, Dennehay goes over the cliff and is smashed to death. As Author Godden handles this story, it becomes at once an anguished lyric and a beautifully balanced tale of suspense...
...HOUSE BY THE SEA (271 pp.)-Jon Godden-Rinehart...
...taken the little money her father had left her, walked out on her domineering spinster roommate in London and bought a lonesome cliffside house on the Cornish coast. In her second novel, British Author Jon Godden* has drawn a terrifying picture of the consequences of Edwina's loneliness, a warning of the psychological perils that beset those humans who cannot make their terms with humanity...
TAKE THREE TENSES-Rumer Godden -Little, Brown...
...Author Godden (Black Narcissus) saves the mellow, memory-filled house for the family by having Rolls buy it as a present for his niece Grizel. Then a Nazi bomb caves in one of its walls, crushing out Rolls's life. Dying, he summons the spirit of Lark for a last talk. "Those [past] . . . actions were like thorns and wounds in our minds," says Lark. "But that is all over." "I love you, Lark," cries Rolls. "I love you. How much I love...