The response from reviewers (in a prewar climate that was depressing in itself) was not positive. They all concurred that Rhys's vision in this book had finally become too sordidly unacceptable. In the New Statesman...
Family and Intimate relationships
Olivia Manning
Though her biographers say she was still in love with Reggie Smith after the end of the second world war, OM
had by then had various brief affairs. One with John Mair
, detective-story writer...
