New Fiction
The Burning Jewel. By Teresa Kay. Hodder and Stoughton. 255 pp.
This novel sets out to be an examination of a marriage (in the Graham Greene manner) in which by the power of grace, the wife is able to forgive, while the husband whose sin is pride is at the last rescued from the evil of self-destruction by means of a bird which is given symbolic significance. Lindon Herm is an official in the British Consulate in Rumania. His wife, Laura, and his son, Robin, are the uneasy partners of his family life which he dominates by bis hasty jealous temper. The inner conflicts from which he suffers derive from a broken home and an early separation from his twin, and his final perverse act brings his marriage to a crisis in which both partners find grace through the 'offices of the Catholic priest who has been tutor to their son. The dialogue is clumsy and the characterisation insufficiently subtle to carry a Jheme of this depth.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28542, 22 March 1958, Page 3
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169New Fiction Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28542, 22 March 1958, Page 3
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