Nona's father sends her from their East Indian tea estate to London to live with cousins. She does not fit in and makes no effort. Then she receives two small Japanese dolls from a distant family member. In learning about them and wanting them to have a proper Japanese dolls' house, she slowly reaches out to the people and family around her. Her cousin Tom builds the house, which is carefully detailed in the story. We also learn about some basic Japanese cultural ways of life. NOTE: The British spellings were left as published, as were the British style of single quotation marks for dialogue.
Other books by Rumer Godden, including "The Little Plum," (the sequel to this book) are available from Bookshare.
This file should make an excellent embossed braille copy.
