The whole picture of one day in a wife and mother's life has a guiltily familiar tempo, as she rushes from one interlocking and overlapping engagement to another, at beck and call of every person connected with her. Not a novel -- really -- but an intensely human and real picture of an everyday character caught in the chain of circumstances that rob her of the right to ""stop, look and listen"". Women will like it, recognizing themselves and their neighbors. Men won't.