RUMER GODDEN (1907–1998) grew up in India, where her father ran a steamship company. When her husband left her penniless in Calcutta with two daughters to raise, she turned to writing to pay off her many debts. She wrote more than sixty books for adults and young adults, including The Doll’s House, Impunity Jane, and The Greengage Summer, and, available from the New York Review Children’s Collection, Mouse House and The Mousewife.