Kingfishers Catch Fire is a 1953 comedy novel by the British writer Rumer Godden.

After she is widowed and left with little money and two children, an independent-minded Englishwoman chooses to live in India rather than return to Britain.

She is idealistically attracted to living a peasant lifestyle in a small village.

A series of cultural misunderstandings follow with the local inhabitants.

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