From a DuMaurier play rather than a novel. It suffers a little from a lack of topicality today: the situation of P.O.W. Redgrave returning to life in The Captive Heart was a universal and timeless one, but the situation of former M.P. Redgrave, returning from a P.O.W. camp to find that his wife has taken over his constituency, smacks a little of artificiality, especially when the wife is Valerie Hobson, who shows that she enjoys her new power and responsibilities. Hardly one of the more meaningful commentaries on life in postwar Britain, though typical of the near desperation of contemporary writers (before the Angry Young Men took over) to offer their usual stock-in-trade but welded to the current scene. William K. Everson