MACKEREL SKY Helen AshtonDoubleday, Doran ($2.50).
Domesticity is often thought to be drab, is capable of dreary interpretations. In Dr. Serocold (TIME, July 14), Helen Ashton showed how fetching a story she could make of a country doctor's 24 hours; in Mackerel Sky she tackles an even grimmer subject and makes it cheerfully readable.
Gilbert was 32 and wrote novels which critics praised and readers failed to buy. Elizabeth was 24 and worked long hours in a woman's wear shop. They lived in an ugly and inconvenient flat in London, got on each other's...
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