CHARMING LOVE STORY
A very beautiful but Doignant story, swinging from laughter to tragedy and back again toward happiness, is contained in Jane Oliver's new novel, "Evening of a Martinet." First the reader is shown Olivia Pennant as a woman approaching 50, headmistress of a girls' school, a vital, dominant and completely lovable character. Then the book swings back to her youth and to the time when she finds that love can go hand-in-hand with tragedy. Olivia's passionate love for the son she cannot claim is described with_ a beauty and clarity of feeling which instantly places the book well above the ordinarv level, and Olivia, emerging finally triumphant, with her son at her side, is a pleasing and happy finish to a very fine novel.
" Evening: of a Martinet," by Jane Oliver. (Collins and 3on§. I
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21876, 11 August 1934, Page 9 (Supplement)
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137CHARMING LOVE STORY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21876, 11 August 1934, Page 9 (Supplement)
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