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THE NARROWING LUST, by Madeleine Masson; Allen and Unwin, English price, 12/6. SABELLE TAILLOIS was not at home on the Normandy farm where she was born. She had a strain of the
aristocrat in her-that strain so necessary in the make-up of any historical novel. She leaves the farm, suffers in Paris, makes a fortune in South African diamonds and real estate, builds great hopes on the development of her illegitimate daughter Sabine, so great that she gives up the man she loves for her sake, arranges a most suitable marriage for her, only to find that in Sabine the peasant strain is dominant when the girl goes off with a farm hand, shattering her mother’s hopes and revealing the bankruptcy of her life. "She (Isabelle) had built up a monument of egoism," says Miss Masson in conclusion, "a tower of strength against which none had dared. She had belonged to no one, not even to herself."" The construction of the book is a little slapdash, but that should not prevent those readers who enjoy historical novels from envoving this one.
G. leF.
Y.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 539, 21 October 1949, Page 16
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185EGOIST New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 539, 21 October 1949, Page 16
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