AN IRISH LOVE STORY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 36, 11 August 1923, Page 19

AN IRISH LOVE STORY

"Different Godte." By Violet Quirk, Lon- . don,: Constable and Co., Ltd 1.

The setting of this story is in Ireland, and it concerns Sheila at 15, brought up in the restrained environment of a home over which a Puritan grandmother grimly presides.- Sheila f>es to a farm and there 6he sees what atnre is Teally like and what love really means. She comes much in contact with a lovely .youth, himßelf a love child, who is father to several children by mothers he has not married and has no intention of marrying. She comes face to face -with the eternal problem of sex, so alluring, like candle is to a moth, to latter-day young -women writers. She is rather attracted by the youth abovementioned, but really in love with a doctor, who married a patient thought to be on her dying- bed, but who made^a wonderful recovery and so put the doctor s plans out of order, and so he could not marry Sheila as ha very much wanted to do. But as the story closes: "He (the doctor) sped across the room to her (Sheila), and lifting her bodily in his arms, laid her upon his bosom" it turns out all right in the end. There is some unusually clever character drawing in this novel. "