This is Naomi Mitchison's least successful novel, and new readers
should not start here! It is shaped by her own life and fears in
her own experience in 1931, and is the first of her novels and
stories not to have a historical setting. Mitchison was appalled by
the rise of fascism in Germany and Italy, and wanted to warn the
world. She was rather dismayed by the results of the Russian
Revolution, of which she had once had great hopes. She also poured
all her most personal feelings into the novel, and covered a
plethora of subjects - not only free love, abortion and rape, but
the unmentionable discussion of marital infidelity, trouser buttons
and rubber goods. Her own love life was so complex that she divided
it between two sisters in the novel! It spent two years being
censored by the publisher while she championed it, but it was
crowded, over-written, hectic and unbalanced. It is poor, but
Mitchison-lovers will find it impossible to put down. Isobel Murray
is Emeritus Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the
University of Aberdeen
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