The Pursuit Of Love

It was inevitable that the Radlett children should display, in their later years, the habit of rebellion from convention and authority, for they were brought up in an odd home ruled by a violent and eccentric father, among whose abundant trophies of the hunt and the chase was the entrenching tool with which he had battered eight Germans to death in the 1914-18 war! The little world he governed was largely devoted to killing things, and the reaction of the high-spirited Young Radletts was to go to the opposite extreme - even to the length of releasing captured animals from traps. They kicked over the traces and revealed indomitable powers of self-will and independence. The Radlett who figures most in this exuberant, vivid novel is Linda, the kindest of them all, whose childhood had been a scant preparation for any permanent and dutiful relationship. Linda in love is a woman who behaves with little regard to the proprieties, and she suffers her share of the consequences until her conquered pursuit of love is rewarded in the end.