The Diddakoi is a 1972 novel for children by Rumer Godden

Rumer Godden

Margaret Rumer Godden OBE was an English author of over 60 fiction and nonfiction books written under the name of Rumer Godden. A few of her works were co-written by her sister, Jon Godden, who wrote several novels on her own...

. It won the 1972

1972 Whitbread Awards

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 Whitbread Award

Costa Book Awards

The Costa Book Awards are a series of literary awards given to books by authors based in Great Britain and Ireland. They were known as the Whitbread Book Awards until 2005, after which Costa Coffee, a subsidiary of Whitbread, took over sponsorship....

 in the Children's Book category. 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

Kizzy (TV series)

Kizzy is the name given to the 1976 BBC adaptation of Rumer Godden's novel The Diddakoi. It starred Vanessa Furst as Kizzy....

, with Vanessa Furst as Kizzy, and has been republished under the title Gypsy Girl.