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N England of Old Rectories, j village life, nannies and gover ises, and where everyone is led Lester-Crowe or Bertie iverton, is mirrored in Laura Ibot’s novel The Last of The writs. The working classes are urally comic cockney and any re on to the England of 1961 is ely accidental. r he Last of The Tennants is a >d example of Romance Fiction, ant for the library trade, and is afe birthday gift for vour spinster it.

Irenda Frazer, the heroine, rents ie High Drift” from landlord affrey Cringle, in a Norfolk fish village. Although the roof is dng, Brenda is too inhibited to nplain to Cringle because they en’t been introduced.

Vhen he finally sums up an •ugh English courage to call on she tells him she is a “sort of rderess” because she has been hy of manslaughter, fte story then runs backwards Brenda’s tweedy past and con is such gems as: Harry, darling, why haven’t we I a child?

Hs an idea,” he said. “But you d to have such awful nightmares * d t a child crying.”

It wouldn’t cry forever, a baby omes a child.”

It’s an idea but we’ll talk about n Spain.”

Irenda then goes on to say that much of their time was spent in mssions about it that she began Kh she had never wanted one. . s w e said, your maiden Aunt 1 love this one.—AF.

Last Op The Tenants. Pub

°y Peter Davies. 18/9.)