A London Family Between the Wars. By M. Vivian Hughes.
(Oxford University Press. 7s. 6d.)
MRS. HUGHES' family chronicle ambles agreeably on. A widow with two sons, she settles in "a semi-detached " at Cuffley, and is a little coy about this; the collector at King's Cross is taken aback by her first-class ticket when she comes up to London. She avoids working parties adroitly, and without domestic help looks back sometimes to the old days and " the cap-and-apron sisterhood." When she is asked to join " the Cuffley Ladies," she tells her caller that she isn't a lady; but the reader will understand clearly that that is just her fun. She discovers a kindred spirit-an intellectual-and they have musical evenings; her boy at B.N.C. brings friends down; after a family council a car is bought. There is an unmistakable fragrance about this chronicle-one might call it " Dodie Smith."
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