Julia Birley

With this work, Kennedy switched publishing firms to that of Macmillan , with which she stayed for all her works after this. She dedicated this book to her daughter, Julia Davies (later Birley) .

In the same year that her mother died, 1928, MK gave birth to her first child, Julia , who also became a novelist. Another daughter and a son followed in 1930 and 1935. Kennedy and...

Brothers does not agree with this perception of humour: she finds that while the characters and the situation seem made for comedy . . . instead of comedy Kennedy writes a banal, tragic melodrama.

The publication of her seventh novel marked her move from Heinemann to Cassell . Virago reissued this novel as part of its Modern Classics series in 1981 with an introduction by Kennedy's author-daughter, Julia Birley