Social Problem
MR. LEN ORT-ZEN again takes London's East End for a setting to his latest novel, “The Two Husbands.”
Mr. Ft.rnarm was a London bus conductor, but in comparison with him his wife and grown-up -son and daughter were typical Eastenders until they migrated to one of London's new suburban housing estates, when the bus conductor suddenly died. The widow married again and the step-father complicated the domestic arrangements, while the boy’s gambling propensities together with the girl’s badly managed romance did not help matters. Mr. Ortzen writes of the social problem on some of the big housing estates which is becoming more and more difficult to solve. The Farnarm family arc typical of thousands who are being transferred to these new communities with their new outlook, which can and should be, turned to got d account. How this particular familV made good is well worth the telling*—the novel might almost be termed a human document."
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20032, 2 September 1939, Page 11
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157Social Problem Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20032, 2 September 1939, Page 11
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