Coromandel Sea Change

  It was our last night. I walked away from the camp to see it so that I should remember it: the small white tents in the light of the young moon, the fir forest and the snow peak behind it. One big star above the snow, and the moonlight and firelight shining in the stream.

  COROMANDEL SEA CHANGE

  RUMER GODDEN was one of Britain’s most distinguished authors, with many justly famous and much-loved books for both adults and children to her credit, including The River, Black Narcissus, The Greengage Summer and The Peacock Spring.

  She was awarded the OBE in 1993 and died in 1998, aged ninety.

  Also by Rumer Godden

  Pippa Passes

  The Peacock Spring

  The River

  In This House of Brede

  Episode of Sparrows

  Black Narcissus

  The Greengage Summer

  Cromartie v. the God Shiva Acting Through the Government of India

  Breakfast with the Nikolides

  Kingfishers Catch Fire

  First published 1991 by Macmillan London Ltd

  This edition published 2004 by Pan Books

  This electronic edition published 2011 by Pan Books

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  Coromandel Sea Change copyright © Rumer Godden 1991

  ‘The Herbogowan’ copyright © The Rumer Godden Literary Trust 2004

  Introduction copyright © Raffaella Barker 2004

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