- The Diddakoi
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The Diddakoi
Front cover illustrationAuthor(s) Rumer Godden Country United Kingdom Genre(s) Children's book Publisher Macmillan Publication date 1972 The Diddakoi is a 1972 novel for children by Rumer Godden. It won the 1972 Whitbread Award in the Children's Book category.[1] It is the story of an orphan traveller or Romani girl called Kizzy, who faces persecution, grief and loss in a hostile, close-knit village community. This is a moving tale of human fallibility and sorrow, but also of strength, courage and redemption. It was dramatised by Dorothea Brooking in the 1970s, as the BBC TV series Kizzy, with Vanessa Furst as Kizzy, and has been republished under the title Gypsy Girl.
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Categories:- Children's novel stubs
- Whitbread Award winners (books)
- British children's novels
- 1972 novels
- Novels about orphans
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