An Episode of Sparrows is a children’s novel set in a working-class street in South London during World War II. Neighbourhood waif, Lovejoy Mason, finds a packet of cornflower seeds and plants a small garden in a wrecked churchyard filled with rubble from the Blitz. Although some other children dislike and humiliate her, Tip Malone, the leader of a gang of local boys, comes to take an interest in the project, and ultimately Lovejoy's garden leads to unexpected consequences for all the children. “It would be impossible for a reader not to feel better from reading the story...her rich understanding of human nature, her humor and her beautiful prose inevitably leave one aglow.” - Chicago Tribune “An Episode of Sparrows was the first book that made me cry when I was ten. I cried all over again at this recent reading of the story — and I closed the book with the same sense of total satisfaction.” - Jacqueline Wilson English author, Margaret Rumer Godden (1907 – 1998) was born in Eastbourne, Sussex, and grew up in Narayanganj, India (now in Bangladesh), where her father worked for the Brahmaputra Steam Navigation Company. Her best-known novel is  Black Narcissus (1939). Published by World Books, UK in 1957. Book is in good condition with dust jacket and the binding is intact.