Nelle Scanlan Blows In With Wind

Chronicle (Levin), 25 January 1949, Page 4

Nelle Scanlan Blows In With Wind

WELLINGTON, Jan. 24. Back from • a four vears ' stav , in England, t'He New Zealend novelist, Miss Nelle Scanlan, is lookirig 'for a place ''out of the draught" in which to settle down and revise her fifteenth novel.- Miss Sranjau, \ylio retnrned in -the Dominion Monarch, said her latesf and f ourteentli hook ' ' Rusty Road, ' ' written i|i a Ngjj? ZQaland setfing, was publislied just befoye, slie left London. She had planned to complete_ the revisi'on of her next on the. journey to New Zealand but had been too busy enjoying the voyage. * "It is like old times eoming into Wellington in tliis wind," said Miss Scanlan, "but f'm so tired of wiad and want to get away ffpip it, Where I 'J! settle down ancl start work I don 't i know until I've looked rourid. 1 have 4io fixed plan. 1 ' Aliss Scanlan saicj, her yisit tq Britaip 1 just eoneluded, was her fifth "or sixth but she was weary of the austerity of living there now. It was very grim. heoyle were not buying books in" Bri jain now t.Q the extent they werq dup |ng the wap The war book Jiad dclinjtely passed and Ihe hook trade was gettling tfl aoyprak Maejj rubbish .was rushed out during the war but people were now more discriminating.