In one of her earliest novels Jane Gardam brings together an eclectic group of characters in a northern seaside town between the wars. Narrated by eight year old Margaret, daughter of a fanatically religious bank manager and subservient mother, she struggles to understand the adult world with its human frailties as she encounters new people and experiences. In a comedy of manners lives are deftly, if at times, improbably woven together, culminating with a dramatic flourish.
(Sue Pratt - bwl 69 Summer 2013 ) |
