India, Oct. 17 -- India is not simply the setting of Rumer Godden's childhood. It is the landscape that shaped her imagination, sense of home, and life as a writer. Bringing together selections from Godden's autobiographical writing, Every Least Thing traces her journey from an unconventional childhood in Bengal to marriage, motherhood, work and the difficult beginnings of her literary career. It follows her through family homes and convent schools, dance classes and tea gardens, periods of hardship and solitude, and the years in which writing gradually became both vocation and escape. Intimate, vivid and sharply observed, these pages reveal the experiences behind some of Godden's best-loved fiction, while recording a world transformed by time, memory and history. The tales form the portrait of a woman learning to make a life on her terms, and of a writer whose connection to India endured long after she had left it....