SPEAK TO ME OF LOVE

by Dorothy Eden ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 29, 1972

Miss Eden has expanded longitudinally at any rate and this is one of those layercake novels without too much frosting which goes on for some 50 years, beginning in 1881. Who would have thought that Beatrice Bonnington of Bonnington's Emporium beginnings -- a shopkeeper's daughter, plain and plump but canny -- would marry William Overton, upper class on his uppers? Who would have guessed that William, both frail and attractive physically, would either take to his bed or someone else's? Would you have guessed -- Beatrice didn't nor gave it much thought as she went about managing the store -- that William had really fallen in love with her children's governess? Or would you suspect that Beatrice, a strong woman really, would send the errant girl away having appropriated her child when it was born, a child with all the graces and looks she herself and her own children lacked? And would you anticipate this uxorious story of British middle class life, as comfortable as an afghan, could be stretched out to cover not only her own audience but that of the now late Delderfield? The publishers do.

Pub Date: Sept. 29, 1972

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1972

Categories: FICTION