This novel was a Book Society
choice (OM
's third), but was badly reviewed by Nancy Spain
and Viola Garvin
.
Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
157-8
Publishing
Colette
It was translated under the title Recaptured by Viola Gerard Garvin
in 1931. Another translation, by Antonia White
, appeared under the title of The Shackle in 1963 (title-page saying 1964), as the seventeenth and...