TWO UNDER THE INDIAN SUN by Jon and Rumer Godden. 240 pages. Knopf, Viking. $5.50.
Fifty years ago, eight-year-old Rumer Godden began to write a novel. "Peggy," read one memorable sentence, "looked round and saw a tigiger and a loin roring at her."
"But she was in the garden," protested Rumer's kibitzing nine-year-old sister Jon. "There wouldn't have been a tiger or a lion."
"It doesn't matter," said Rumer. "This is writing."
The Godden sisters are now successful British novelists, and when Rumer (Black Narcissus, The River) and Jon (The Seven Islands, The Peacock) use...
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