Kitten with Blue Eyes

by Jon Godden

251 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Winsome Ruth Key Godden was an English novelist who wrote under the name Jon Godden. She is the lesser known sister of author Rumer Godden. Although her work was praised by critics she was not interested in the commercial side of writing as she had a financially stable marriage. She spent most of her life in India; however when her marriage came to an end in 1957, she was forced to move back to family owned real estate in England where she remained until her death.

Reviews

[Jane Naylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

A "respectable" middle aged and comparatively wealthy woman finds a "burglar" hiding in her attic and decides, feeling sorry for the young teenage girl, to adopt her, with the idea of educating her. After a while it becomes clear that the girl had not been alone in the burglary and the story becomes a little tense. The end is not happy but there is a kind of consolation.