Black Narcissus was her first published book. She wrote This House of Brede, also about nuns, after she converted to Catholicism.
She also wrote a slew of children’s books...and poetry.
Other adult books, too, such as “Pippa Passes” and “Coromandel Sea Change” and “Peacock Summer.” I’ve always been interested in India, so I got a lot out of her books.
I first read “In This House of Brede” in the Reader’s Digest Condensed Books sets in my grandparents’ attic in Missouri, where my brother and I would go in the summer. Eventually I became a Catholic, too, and that was definitely an influence.