1930. English novelist Macaulay's early novels were noted for their wit, urbanity and mild satire. Staying with Relations begins: Catherine Grey, a young female, and, like so many young females, a novelist, went to America one autumn and lectured to its inhabitants on the Creation of Character in Fiction. Catherine was twenty-seven, but had, nevertheless, so far only published three novels, for though diligent, she wrote slowly and at some length. If any should desire to know whether or not she also wrote well, I can but reply that her novels pleased some tastes and not others, and that it is impossible to say more or other than this of any writings, since philosophers have unfortunately failed, down the ages to arrive at any fixed standards of merit in art. Catherine's novels were probably quite averagely readable as novels go. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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Catherine, an English noivelist, goes to stay with her aunt who has bought an old Spanish plantation in a Guatemalan forest, here she meets her cousin Isie, recently married, and her aunt's new husband and his four children. Family complications arise, isie's husband has fallen in love with one of his mother-in-law's stepchildren. A smooth-talking American conman, Mr Phipps, has his eye on some hidden Indian treasures, and ends up being persued across America by Catherine and her step-cousins. Full of humorous situations, witty dialogue and amusing characters, and wonderful viviv descriptions of the Guatamalan jungle and its inhiabitants. Thuis is Rose macaulay's most entertaining novel.
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