FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
“Personal Effects,” by Barbara Willard (London: Macmillan).
The very respectable family of old Frederick Sansom gathered to bear the contents of his will with that air of complacency and self-righteousness which their father had always disliked. Their complacency quickly vanished when they heard the will and their respectability sfiemed gone for ever. For father had a malicious sense of humour and the fact that, unknown to his family or the world at large, he had never been married to their mother enabled him to exercise it for the last time with shattering effect. This' is the situation which Miss Willard describes and develops in her aptly-named novel “Personal Effects,’’ and she makes of it a smoothly- moving comedy that is always brightly entertaining. The character drawing is good and as a study of personal relationships as affected by a domestic upheaval, it is witty and engrossing-
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 258, 29 July 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)
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148FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 258, 29 July 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)
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