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...KNOCK THE CORNERS OFF, by Caroline Glyn. This 15-year-old first-novelist shows an old pro's shrewdness in choosing the subject matter she knows best: the fiercely competitive world of an English boarding school for little girls...
...KNOCK THE CORNERS OFF, by Caroline Glyn. The great-granddaughter of Elinor Glyn makes an early (age 15) start on a literary career, writing about friendships of Byronic intensity and alliances of Renaissance intricacy among the intense little girls at a London primary school...
...KNOCK THE CORNERS OFF by Caroline Glyn. 256 pages. Coward-McCann...
...saying: "Pooh! I don't believe it," you say, not too one-uppishly: "It's not hard really, not nearly as hard as math. Mother told me my great-grandmother way back in the Dark Ages wrote hundreds and hundreds of novels. She was called Elinor Glyn and Lord Curzon was madly in love with her and I thought...
...Burbles. This could be no less than the truth for Caroline Glyn, who is in fact Elinor Glyn's great-granddaughter but whose prose is much better. It can be said confidently that Caroline's 256-page tale of English school life is the best novel by a 15-year-old ever written; more important, it is one of the best school stories to emerge from any age group...