The Kitchen Madonna Author:Rumer Godden Marta, the maid in a fine modern London house, was unhappy that her kitchen had no "good place" -- no little shrine for Our Lady and the Holy Child such as had graced the one room of her Ukrainian home years ago. How Gregory, the boy, came to understand her need and try to fill it, how he went through one difficulty and disappointment ... more »after another to bring it about, and how he finally succeeded by a creative act of his own, is the whole of this simple story. Yet it has a subtlety and humor and truth to life that make it irresistably moving.« less