The Sunlit Hour

Sir: I may be a peasant, but your correspondent ‘Pleasant Pheasant’ seems to me both irritable and gratuitously unpleasant. My Book Shop review of Ruth Gilbert’s The Sunlit Hour was unfavourable. Surely that is the real bone of contention. If it had been favourable, your correspondent would not have grumbled at any analogy, whether drawn from the animal or the vegetablepage 282 kingdom. The use of an illustrative image, especially in a spoken review, must often have kept your correspondent awake when he or she would otherwise have dozed off in the family basket chair

1956 (132)