AUSTRALIANS IN LONDON.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20269, 11 August 1937, Page 11

AUSTRALIANS IN LONDON.

“HOUSE OF 'CONFLICT.” SHREWD, HUMANE STUDY. “House of Conflict,” by Vera Dwyer is something quite new among Australian novels, and will suprise every one who reads it. Though, broadly speaking, it may be called Australian, and though almost all tho characters aro Australians, the soene is London, the time summer in England, and the locality somewhere on the sea-coast of London’s modern Bohemia. It is, in fact, more than mere Action—like all good novels; it is a shrewd, humane study of a tiny community of Australian artists, in the very heart of the

world’s most fascinating city, ruled over jealously by Vicky, wife of Timothy. But for Vicky none of the events chronicled here could have happened; for it was Vicky who, having brought together under one roof these struggling young artists from “down under,” gradually became a sort of Roman parent to them all, and ended by bringing unhappiness and separation among them. The story Is told with a sincerity which makes one suspect that it is more faot than fiction.