Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984) was one of the most popular British novelists of the twentieth century. Her Green Dolphin Street, a #1 New York Times bestseller, was made into an Academy Award–winning film. She also wrote many acclaimed children’s books—in 1946 she won the Carnegie Medal for The Little White Horse, which J. K. Rowling has said was her favorite book as a child. Elizabeth Goudge’s Christian spirituality pervades all her work, but nowhere as explicitly as in her books God So Loved the World: The Story of Jesus Christ and My God and My All: The Story of Saint Francis of Assisi.
Elizabeth Goudge’s novels, long or short, have always been
distinguished by a quality of lyrical joyousness more usually
associated with poetry than with prose and, perhaps, with music
than with writing.
*New York Times*
An absorbing story….Elizabeth Goudge makes skillful use of
contemporary sources, St. Francis’s own writings and those of his
followers, and the legends – employing them with the skill of a
gifted storyteller. A superb recreation of a wonderful personality,
who even today holds a unique place in people’s imagination and
hearts.
*Kirkus Reviews, starred review*
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