Romance and Realism
FANTASTIC trifle that never leaves the sealm of reality is C. Gordon Glover's Like a Thief in the Night. The story is frankly impossible; the music-hall star who is about to marry (continued on next page)
| oa (continued from previous page) the heir to a baronetcy and all its millions is stolen away from her future ancestral home by her true former lover-with the help of chloroform. But the beauty of this incredible situation is that it is put prosaically and logically into a perfect framework of the ordinary and commonplace. She is stealing the Honourable Mary’s husband, without love, therefore he steals her, like a thief in the night. It is a minor and transparent example of this writer’s method, which he has used with such great success on a larger scale. And it is a recipe which never fails, even in such an insignificant fragment as this one.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 434, 17 October 1947, Page 10
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185Romance and Realism New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 434, 17 October 1947, Page 10
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