“HOLY DEADLOCK"
DIVORCE LAW ATTACKED LONDON. sth April. _ In a. novel entitled “Holy Deadlock. ’ A. P. Herbert makes a devastating attack on the English divorce system. The plot follows closely the details revealed in the much-discussed case of Adam v. Adam. The storv concerns tho nicest possible young people, but they just happened not to suit cue another, and decided on an agreed divorce. The hero hired an innocent youiw co-respondent for a night, but the Court discovered the facts, and a divorce was refused, so the hero had to find another co-respondent. When he finally secured a decree nisi the King’s Proctor got spies to work upon his wife, and found that she had been meeting her lover in perfect innocence. Nevertheless, the judge declined a decree absolute. So four persons were made miserable, and several others involved in indecent deceit. Tile only satisfied people were the judges, lawyers, and detectives, who were handsomely remunerated for making the law farcical.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 21 April 1934, Page 7
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