Well, I tried my best to
finish MY FELLOW DEVILS by LP Hartley but there is a point where genteel
restraint suffocates the prose and that’s what has happened here.
The story of Margaret Pennefather
and her broken engagement with a barrister Nicholas Burden and eventual
marriage with a film actor Colum McInnes is far too delicate and obscured by
necklace clutching and gasps of Queen Victoria social clampdown to be
interesting.
A twist or two, an unexpected
death or something dark would do a lot to push the narrative forward but alas
there is nothing like that.
There is the rigmarole about Catholicism
as Colum is Catholic and Margaret is not but the end conflict is more about a
crime that is committed (not a very interesting one).
Haven’t given up on Hartley
but boy did he need to swing a little bit. Get
out more etc....
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