[?]erchaant's Daughter

Loved the Coal [?]erchaant's Daughter

iW writer Bernard Thomson calls his novel Love In Quiet Places, if this conjures up ideas of a antic idyll in a sleepy backwater, d be dead wrong, arney Summer’s quiet places were ;rally behind hedges or on park :hes because Barney belonged to stratum of English society ;d the “lower orders.” He began working life as the village grocer’s then graduated to bookie’s ier. Barney had learned about i from his Uncle Jim and a book cost 5/-. when new. Evidently her Uncle Jim nor the book knew ything, because soon he has the 1 coal merchant’s daughter “in ble.” was just about Barney’s swan l in the village. He migrates, with talents, to London where he takes with a plump, blonde widow who a greengrocer’s shop, he book is written in colourful -person and as Barney is not up by any of his many problems for I, it has a certain untroubled rm and doubtful humour. He has gift—rare these days—of being tent to live in the station into ch Fate has cast him. He isn’t a tleman and does not aspire to it, makes a pretty good fist of adapt to environment.

,Ove In Quiet Places. Hodder &

ighton Ltd. 22/6.)