A group of Anglican nuns runs into trouble when they try to start a hospital and a school in the Himalayas.

In this sensitive and superbly crafted memoir, one of the foremost English-language authors of modern times, Rumer Godden, chronicles her early life in India and England. She paints a vivid picture of her childhood, in the early 1900s--in Narayangunj, a village in undivided Bengal, where her father worked with the Brahmaputra Steam Navigation Company--and her early forays into writing. She movingly recounts the pain of being forced to return to England...