THE MULBERRY BUSH
THE GOVERNESS AT ASHBURTON HALL. By Neil Bell. Eyre and Spottiswoode, HE essential silliness of this story -is somewhat obscured by the flashes of realistic psychology and the carefully chosen period detail. The time is the Boer War; the place is Devon; the theme is-now what is it? Both love and mystery are entangled in a thicket of always-surprising incident. After those dinner parties--where everyone comments, with dullness and profusion, on Rhodes, on: Kipling, on the jealous French and the misunderstood Boersand all those literary allusions, plastered on with’ a trowel, the book just had to wind through a deathbed wedding and a double murder to its happy ending. All the time one feels Mr. Bell can do better, and his heroine, impervious to ehoste. choulse and the incredibilitiese of
the plot, is charming.
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 484, 1 October 1948, Page 19
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139THE MULBERRY BUSH New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 484, 1 October 1948, Page 19
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