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There are a couple of characters Young dislikes, Herbert Blackett and his eldest daughter, and there she really keeps her thumb on the scales. I don’t have this one (trying to limit my book purchases at the moment), but I remember enjoying Tea Is So Intoxicating immensely, and I have Dangerous Ages lined up next. After her parent's death she moves in next door to the Blacketts, headed up by Herbert Blackett, one of the best-drawn and most annoying men I have ever encountered in literature, a self-absorbed, snobbish, judgmental narcissist, and never have I wanted to much to jump into a book and verbally slap someone. Yes, the after-effects of the war are very much present throughout the novel, especially in Rosamund’s thoughts. Blackett sneers and belittles the Frasers to his own family at every opportunity, though he's secretly attracted to the free-spirited Rosamund.

One of the women, whose husband seems to be living apart from her because of his anger, alcoholism or cruelty to the kids, would love to see him smash Blackett in the face. And then there was a World War I veteran, Piers Lindsay, who had a facial disfigurement from a war wound who was a second cousin of Bertha. Blackett and Mrs Fraser both have to make the best of their situations, which each does in her own style. Like the hapless Baron from Elizabeth von Armin’s novel, The Caravaners, Herbert Blackett – with his pompous nature and lack of self-awareness – has completely underestimated his wife’s intelligence, something that is all too apparent to the reader. I love to see the way attitudes and views have changed over the years, particularly with regard to the lives of Women.Having now read five of these books, I think this is probably the richest, most satisfying in the series so far.

Mrs Blackett has tolerated her misery by pretending to be happy, and mocking her husband to herself. The contrast between the Blackett and the Fraser households is stark and rests almost entirely with it’s patriarch. Perhaps the most fascinating interplay between the two houses is the one involving Mr Blackett and Rosamund herself.H Young should have figured out that her readership understood that — Bertha does not like her husband anymore. Initially, Miss Spanner was presented as a lonely spinster who was brought up by very strict parents whose goal it was to raise a person who would take care of them in their old age and be exactly like them (she was allowed very little freedom to do or to think as she pleased) — the father scared a potential suitor of Miss Spanner’s away from the house. In many respects, it’s an important component of the various uncertainties we are left with at the end of the novel. FIRST EDITION, lacks d/w, super octavo, hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable.

Half fascinated and quite horrified, he stared down, knowing that the longer he looked the darker and deeper it would become, until, with self-preservation more urgent than curiosity, he stepped back into safety. Some of the books we read paid no attention to the looming at all; some of the authors probably agreed with Mr Blackett that it would never happen. In 1902, at the age of 22, she married Arthur Daniell, a solicitor from Bristol, and moved with him to the upscale neighbourhood of Clifton.E. H Young spent close to 300 pages constantly having us being privy to Bertha’s thoughts (I can’t stand my husband, thought in 10,000 different ways [and we have to listen to all 10,000 ways]) and Bertha’s pithy comments to him (10,000 different sarcastic rejoinders to his comments (and we have to listen to all 10,000 rejoinders). So many felt that appeasement and compromise were the wisest course -- ludicrous now in hindsight, but very serious at the time. And he didn’t like Bertha visiting with Piers, probably because Piers had done his duty and fought in the war and he had gotten injured while Herbert had evaded service. The unlikeable character of the neighbour, Mr Blackett, is a portrayal of human self-perception (take it in whatever degree you choose!



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