NOVEL OF FAMILY LIFE
“Without Comment” by Barbara Beauebamp (London: Barker).
Barbara Beauchamp has written a novel of family life which departs widely from the accustomed procedure of such stories. In fact her book is not so much about the family itself as about the causes of its gradmil disintegration. Her principal characters are a mother with uncomfortably possessive traits, two decidedly individual daughters, a son lacking the strength of purpose of li’i sisters, and a father disinterested in his offspring and grown apart from his wife. There is all the material here for a series of disruptions, and the author makes the most of it. It is not a particularly pleasant story, but it has a ring of truth iu it. The members of this family belong to life as it is lived today. They are drawn with a skill which makes them interesting if not likeable, and a plot which develops naturally witli plenty of fast action helps to make the novel a success.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 148, 18 March 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)
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166NOVEL OF FAMILY LIFE Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 148, 18 March 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)
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