An Episode of Sparrows

An Episode of Sparrows ( German The blue flowers of Catstreet ) is the title of a novel by Rumer Godden from the year 1956.

The novel is set in Catford Street, a densely built-up area in London where there is little green. The living with a foster family girl Lovejoy Mason one day finds a bag of corn flower seeds. She is laying on a run-down property is a small garden at first ridiculed by other children, but eventually finds support in Tip Malone, the leader of a street gang. The two children develop each other an affectionate friendship relationship that grows as sensitively as the green in the garden. Gradually the garden for other people of the area begins to be interesting and even fascinating and changed the outlook in both a real as well as figuratively zubetonierten world.

1958, the novel was made ​​into a film under the title Innocent Sinners with June Archer in the role of Lovejoy Mason and Christopher Hey in the role of Tip Malone.