MAJOR NOVELIST
Sir,-I read with interest the review by David Hall of The Call Home, by James Courage. I have read all James Courage’s books, and consider this is the slightest of a slight lot. As for calling him New Zealand’s major novelist, I feel this is an exaggeration. After all, he has been in England for so long one could almost call him an Englishman.
The real purpose of this letter is to bring to your notice another novelist who ‘is a true ‘New Zealander, Mary Scott, whose latest novel, Families Are Fun, has as much to offer, especially in the psychological approach, that James Courage has tried to deal with, Mary Scott’s last four novels need no introduction to the average reader, and she does amuse a vast number of people. I think if a census on New Zealand’s major novelist were to be taken, Mary Scott would win hands: down. After all, she does live in and has had vast exe perience of New Zealand.
FAYLO
MYERS
(Christchurch),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 901, 9 November 1956, Page 5
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