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|title=An Episode of Sparrows

|sort=Episode of Sparrows, An

|publisher=Virago

|date=April 2014

|website=http://www.rumergodden.com/index.php

|video=

|summary=A welcome re-issue of a classic, this delightful story of hope against the odds could be enjoyed equally by both children and adults.

}}

It is post war London and in a private garden in a prosperous square someone has been digging up the earth. The formidable Miss Angela Chesney of the Garden Committee is convinced that a gang of local boys from nearby Catford Street is to blame. Her sister Olivia, a more thoughtful and kindly woman, worries about these children, ‘the sparrows’ and believes that there is more to this than petty theft. Meanwhile in Catford Street a little girl named Lovejoy Mason, abandoned by her mother to the care of restaurant owner Vincent and his wife, nurtures hopes and dreams of her own. As this story unfolds these very different lives become entangled in ways none of them could have anticipated.