Books: English Summer

A LONG TIME AGO—Margaret Kennedy —Doubleday, Doran ($2). In a day which has not yet decided what shape a novel ought to have or whether it should have a shape at all. it is sometimes a relief to find a novel which not only has form but notably ingenious form. Such is A Long Time Ago, a much better constructed, not to mention better finished book than Authoress Kennedy's best-selling The Constant Nymph.

The story opens not in medias res but long after everything has happened. Hope Napier, brusquely grown-up Post-War product of what...

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