china court

$30.00

Rumer Godden’s classic novel China Court, recounts the story of an English country house and the five generations who have occupied it. It is a story of today but the past is ever present.

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China Court

Rumer Godden’s novel about the hours and days of a country house in Cornwall. And the five generations of the family who inhabited it. Set in a Welch country house , the novel covers a

century and a half in the lives of the family who owned China Court. In addition prosperity come to the  family in the form of pure white clay, found in the soil, that they used in the  making   porcelain. Thus the name China Court which signifies prosperity. Now generations have passed and the estate is inherited by a fifth generation grand daughter who decides to grant the wishes of the grandmother. What is the wish  and how will it go over with the others?