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Attic Images. This week an Englishwoman of 40 has done it, and done it in her first book. An English Year is the work of Nan Fairbrother, the mother of two boys, 11 and 12, wife of London Physician William McKenzie. It would be easy to say that her book is not about anything much, and in a way that would be right. During the war she spent three years on a farm in Buckinghamshire, while her husband was overseas with the R.A.F. From the attic of the 16th century house she could see London, 40 miles away, being destroyed...
...Between, the heroine is tooling down the road to Nowhere so fast that the audience can hardly read the signposts of the plot. She is a young Englishwoman (Claire Bloom) who goes to Berlin, 1953, for a visit with her brother (Geoffrey Toone), an officer in the British occupation force. Almost at once she senses dark, hurrying shapes in the outwardly placid life of her sister-in-law (Hildegarde Neff), and soon curiosity tempts her to take a plunge into the shadowy mystery...
...They were so shameless that instead of retiring to a dark corner to eat, they engorged grossly at a public table, where all & sundry might witness the repellent act of mastication. Nothing, concluded Grandma, could redeem Menen's Irish mother (to whom she always referred flatly as "the Englishwoman," much irking Mrs. Menen). but if Aubrey wanted to become a true son of Malabar and inherit the family wealth, it was not too late. He had only to quaff a goblet of sacred cow's urine and "the sad accident of being born in London" would be forgotten...
...bigger cities, garbage piled high in the streets. Paris had neither subways nor bus lines, and at its railroad terminals, thousands of tourists, including many Americans, sat on their suitcases and fumed. "I'm sick to death of these unstable countries," said an angry Englishwoman. "From now on I will never leave British soil...
...novel. Kingfishers Catch Fire, is a Book-of-the-Month Club choice for June. It tells the story of Sophie Ward, a 35-year-old Englishwoman who has kept her looks, but whose brains have always been somewhat scattered. Left a widow in India with two children and a tiny pension, Sophie decides not to go home to the austere safety of Britain but to rough it in the Vale of Kashmir, where the scenery is breathtaking and the people are delightfully unspoiled. When her small daughter Teresa hears about this, she makes a face, because she would much rather...