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Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 7, 31 August 1928, Page 13

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The Battle of the Horizens. (Sylvia Thompson.) "PHOSE who delighted in Miss Thompson’s interesting and successful post-war novel, "The Hounds of Spring," wiil welcome with interest another work from her vivacious pen. The horizons are those of England and America; and the story that of an American girl, lovely, enthusiastic and eager, who marries an Englishman, of whose country and people she cherishes romantic dreams. ‘Together they fare forth fror: America, where first they met, and live in the English home of the young husband. Geoffrey is extremely well drawn, true to type, with those persistent characteristics that are so apparent in his race and class. His charming mother is a living figure, and the rest of the family skilfully depicted, with uncompromising truthfulness. and sympathy witha}. Particularly attractive are the twins, with their dogs and their Communism, their naivete, sophistication, and delightful irresistible youth. Puzzling to the earnest, beautiful stranger are some of the qualities of the family vircle, and foolishly she imagines her Geoffrey to be lacking in insight and appreciation, and rather lethargic in adopting her plans and ambitions for his political career. The misunderstandings that arise, the vagaries of the twins, their respective loves and marriages, the contradistinction, sharp and clashing, between Hnglish and American point of view, all go to make excellent reading. The clouds disperse at the long last, just in the good oldfashioned way, and all are happy, ex-

cept the pensive Patricia, with her unhappy love and the nobility of her renunciation. An entertaining book, and, though not perhaps in quite the same category as the author’s earlie: novel, charming enough in its genre

and certain to be widely read.-

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