Generations of readers have enjoyed the novels of Rumer Godden, which include The River and The Greengage Summer. Today, at 88, she lives in Scotland, but her early years were spent in India. She was ostracised by white society during the 1930s, became pregnant by a young stockbroker and was forced to marry. Her husband later abandoned her and her two small daughters, taking with him the proceeds of her best-selling first novel, Black Narcissus.
Director Sharon Maguire ; Series editor Roland Keating