An Episode of Sparrows
by Rumer Goddenliterary work· published 1955
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An Episode of Sparrows is a novel written in 1955 by Rumer Godden. It was re-issued in 2016 in The New York Review Children's Collection. The novel focuses on children in Catford Street, a working-class street in South London, with much stone and asphalt but only a few patches of green. They are seen through the eyes of a pair of well-situated sisters in middle age, one sympathetic to the children, the other not. The main character is a difficult young girl named Lovejoy Mason, who is unofficially fostered by an aspiring restaurateur and his wife, with whom she has been left by her irresponsible mother, a sub-tenant of theirs. Lovejoy finds a packet of cornflower seeds and plants a small garden in a wrecked churchyard otherwise filled with rubble from the Blitz.
Adaptations (1)
An Episode of Sparrows was adapted into a 1958 film.
Innocent Sinners1958 · film · 95 min · dir. Philip Leacock · IMDb ↗IMDb7.0A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.
