North and South ideals
Worldly Goods. By Elizabeth North. Paladin, 1988. 223 pp. $15.95 (paperback). Nina, a well-connected girl from the Home Counties, marries Campbell, a prospering young Yorkshireman. A large number of guests prepare for, travel to, and participate in the wedding ceremony. Like most big weddings, it brings out the best and the worst in people, with no halfway houses. By setting her novel in the goodly world of the late 1950 s Mrs North escapes the racial and economic preoccupations of the present and can
dissect all thpse little faults, follies and fears that divide man from man, man from woman and woman from woman. The wedding represents a vast clash of personalities, class prejudices, regional rivalries, ideas, ideals and aspirations. As a result the novel jangles like frayed nerves and, though one cannot but admire the author’s skill, she provides less a pleasant read than a neurosurgical demonstration. It makes one glad to live in a country where everyone knows the South is superior to the North and there are no arguments about the matter. — Glyn Strange.
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