Lottie Is An Odd Ball
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Lottie Curlow is what might he described as an odd ball, but she's the heroine of Rhys Davies' “Girl Waiting In the Shade”—a novel in which the title makes about as much sense as the rest of it.
3OOR Lottie was the only child L of an ambitious mother who owned a Midlands leather ictory. Mother’s contribution to ,ottie’s well-being was to marry her ff to a young man who owned a ival factory while she herself larried another young man, with ’horn Lottie later falls in love.
All this, of course, makes for com lications in the placid pool of lidlands social life, for while Lottie retends a butterfly-brained docility, ie plans revenge—and she gets it. y ruining the peace of mind of
her conventional husband, by get ting into the bed of her young step father and by causing her mother to die of a mysterious seizure.
That may be said to wrap the plot up—although what Mr. Davies does with it is another matter.
His character study of Lottie is no doubt feasible to him. To us she’s still an odd ball and her mundane husband much to be pitied—even if he did insist on wearing a kilt.
(Girl Waiting In The Shade.
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