FROM COW TO PLOUGH
HOLDFAST. By A. G. Street... Faber and Faber, Ltd. \ R. STREET writes with humanity as well as knowledge of the problems of war-time farming in Englandthat unspectacular but vital Battle of Britain which is still being fought out on more fields than the playing fields of Eton, Although Holdfast is a novel--and @ competent one incidentally -I state the farming theme first as it is the core of the book. Phoebe Carpenter, to cure herself of despair, carries on with the farm while her husband is away in the Army, with the cheerful advice of a veteran farmer friend. She makes the painful change from dairying to agriculture, and soon can farm better than her absent husband. (Farmigg in Britain is managerial, of course, and by our standards there is a great deal of labour employed.) This modest but freshly told story of cantry people making out in the face of all sorts of difficulties-emotional as well as material-holds the attention firmiy by its realism. But should*such a realist as A. G. Street have blest his heroine with such pleasantly elastic capital resources? :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 403, 14 March 1947, Page 31
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186FROM COW TO PLOUGH New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 403, 14 March 1947, Page 31
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