In February, the "Times" called it "magic" and "full of humour and insight", although it conceded that the "deliberately old-fashioned" style "sometimes verges on the sentimental." One month later, a reader from Ontario informed Hodder and Stoughton, publisher of Goudge's book "The Rosemary Tree" in 1956, that it had been "taken over without any acknowledgment whatsoever". Soon another reader informed a newspaper reporter and there was a scandal. "The Rosemary Tree", once labeled "pop fiction, meant to be consumed and forgotten," is a story of hope, rescue, and redemption where God and the devil are subtly and surprisingly rendered as two elderly shut-in ladies. It portrays a Devonshire vicarage landscape in transition, upsetting its people's grasp of the past while working out their presents, surely defying such shallow dismissals. When it was first published in 1956, "The New York Times Book Review" criticized its "slight plot" and "sentimentally ecstatic" approach. After Aikath-Gyaltsen recast the setting to an Indian village, changing the names and switching the religion to Hindu but often keeping the story word-for-word the same, it received better notices. Kafka later remarked about his "Post" review: "there's a phrase 'aesthetic affirmative action.' If something comes from exotic parts, it's read very differently than if it's domestically grown. ... Maybe Elizabeth Goudge is a writer who hasn't gotten her due." Several months later, Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen was dead, perhaps a suicide, but there were suspicious circumstances and requests for investigation. Rowling, the creator of Harry Potter, has recalled that "The Little White Horse" was her favourite book as a child. She has also identified it as one of very few with "direct influence on the Harry Potter books. The author always included details of what her characters were eating and I remember liking that. You may have noticed that I always list the food being eaten at Hogwarts." "Green Dolphin Country" (1944) was adapted as a film under its U.S. title, "Green Dolphin Street", and the movie won the Academy Award for Special Effects in 1948. (The special effects involved the depiction of a major earthquake.) The television mini-series "Moonacre" and the 2009 film "The Secret of Moonacre" were based on "The Little White Horse".