1961
CHINA COURT
Rumer Godden
Chart History
dashed = off the list
21 weeks on the Hardcover Fiction list, peaking at #5
Modern love story, set in Cornwall and interwoven with the living past of five generations of the Quin family, and illustrative of life - as Chaucer says - as a "thinne subtil knittinge of thinges". A medieval book of hours plays a part in the plot.
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Details
- Published
- 1961
- Pages
- 324
- Publisher
- Viking Press
Fiction
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