A USEFUL PLACE

Radio Record, 17 June 1938, Page 30

A USEFUL PLACE

NDIA is @ most useful place. One wonders what some novelists would do without it. For instance, where else On earth could they send their = gir!wives disillusioned with marriage and wanting only a young officer in uniforin to prepare them for jettisoning their husbands? India provides exactly the right type of young officer for forming triangles, and exactly the right type of climate to excuse infidelity. Once the novelist has set the Indian seene, anyone at all can fill in the details, In the case of Margaret Ferguson's "Vain Bondage" the girl-wife is an expallet dancer, the husband a staid but splendidly British resident commissioner, and the young officer is tall with blue eves and mouth nnexpectedly sweet, yet. not weak, Guess for yourself who gets who-and how, You'll probably be wrong, because love's such a strange thing. ‘Vain Bondage." by Margaret Yerguson (Hutchinson and Co., fitd.. London). Our copy from the publishers,