THE UNHAPPY RETURN
SOLDIERS HOME FROM THE WAR , _____ / A preoccupation with the question whether wives will remain faithful to their absent soldier husbands is the theme of an interesting new novel, “ George and Margo,’ by Roland Hoffman, an Australian journalist-soldier who was a prisoner of war for some years/ While George was in England awaiting. transport back to Australia after release from Germany, he learned the stories of some friends whose wives had formed other attachments in their absence, but he was always buoyed up with the thought that Margo at least . would remain faithful.. Much of the book is a golden recollection of his married life and a fond anticipation of the future, but things did not turn out as he expected. . ‘ George and Margo ’ is a book that impresses by its sharp and brutal narrative, but the author has an idiom that becomes most attractive, and the reader can lose himself in a fascinating saga. There are some fine moments of clever pen painting; scenes that are vivid in their clarity. The book is published by the Shakespeare Head; our copy from the Consolidated Press Limited, Sydney.
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Evening Star, Issue 25939, 2 November 1946, Page 13
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189THE UNHAPPY RETURN Evening Star, Issue 25939, 2 November 1946, Page 13
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