Stratosphere of Love

In close on 40 years of writing novels, Susan Ertz has continued to xpound her belief that love is a strong and elevated emotion in which ex raises its ugly head only as an afterthought.

ER characters therefore tend to fall into two categories—those ) are capable of lofty emotion, on one hand; and Other Ranks, on other. The individual with the lirable character plus a lusty inst in sex for sex’s sake, doesn’t t, not in the Ertz book of writing :s. ler novels have an other-worldly and her characters an unsual /ety in this age when sex with the off is one of the most used ary props. r- . , , ...

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e have all owed something to her i trans-Atlantic background as well to her convictions about life in £ra j n the Cool of the Day is carried mgh on this tested-and-tned recipe. rray Logan, 37, has recently been omted to the board of a publishcompany that has branches on i sides of the Atlantic. On his business visit to the United States meets Christine, wife of the son the American founding member .he firm. <jcause of the unsatisfactory nature

of their separate marriages, they form an attachment that both imagine can be kept on a high moral plane, The background of the novel swings between the homes of the landed gentry in Connecticut; the semi-detached villas of outer London suburbia; and the classical remains of ancient Greece. Most of the characters adhere to principles of Positively dizzy altitude, with the two most important representatives of M,c ? . Ertz ’ s Ranks bein g Christine’s mother, and Murray’s wife, Sybil. These two characters are unreHevecfly black, that bitch is me only word that can describe them. * uth °f f™, “e '" noce " ce , ot h two principal characters to run themselves into such a )am ‘ hat th . ere 15 ° y v one ., pa l sab ' e way out for her. She takes it, fimsh ing her novel in such a way that poor Murray faces more trouble than even the most high principled of characters should be expected to enjoy, Miss Ertz is a sure and practiced technician and this book will enhance her reputation amongst her admirers —even if it does, at the same time, show once again that virtue has no particular rewards (in the cool of the day. Pub nshed by Collins. 20/-.)