The Greengage Summer repeats a theme that surfaces in many of Godden's own novels — the end of innocence and the corruption through maturing. A Candle for Saint Jude (1948) is set in the world of ballet, where girls, almost children, first discover love. But Rumer Godden does not view children as pure and good, she believes they also possess an innocent cruelty and selfishness. Like Joss, the.....
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