Annabel Farjeon

Annabel Farjeon concludes: The patches of sentimental glue are cleverly mopped up by the dryness of the heroine's attitude. . . . It is an annoying book, soft at the centre, and yet surrounded by...

British Book News found the book remarkable for its humour and grace.Annabel Farjeon calls it EF 's most interesting piece of adult writing, and says it is fuelled by adulation of the family.

Her niece writes that her reminiscent style had improved and become less cluttered since A Nursery in the Nineties, achieving a clear cool quality.

Her biographer Annabel Farjeon believes that a sequence of thirteen sonnets from the same time, which remained unpublished, were a product of EF 's actual, undocumented first love. A couple of years later EF said...