"KIT CARMICHAEL"
»ir,-Allow me to draw attention to a slight slip in A.M.’s review’ of Miss Scanlan’s recent novel Kit Carmichael. Though quite reasonable in other respects, A.M. has nevertheless misjudged one of her characters grossly. "Mrs. Annabel is. described as "a masterful and thoroughly objectionable aunt." Surely not. She struck me as being one of the book’s most delightful characters: masterful, maybe, but not objectionable. The synopsis on ‘the jacket describes her as "charming, but exacting"-a much more fitting description, and more like the one Miss Scanlan intended to con‘vey, I’m sure. A good deal of misunderstandings would be avoided if people would make certain they have not mis-_ tread before they criticise:
Q.
M.
(Masterton),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 434, 17 October 1947, Page 5
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