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Girl in May

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Front and back inside flap text:
There is always an idyllic streak even in the bitterest and most mocking of Bruce Marshall's novels, so that this full-length Marshall story of young love was perhaps to be expected. Girl in May is a tender and charming romance between a heroine of seventeen and a hero of the same age - staged during the Kaiser war in and about St. Andrews, and vividly alive with the gay precocity, the courage and the exuberance of youth.

Duncan Soutar and Moragh Dunwoodie are respectively a first year student at the University and a schoolgirl just expelled from boarding school for helping to entertain two boys at a dormitory feast. Bumpie's father - Canon Dunwoodie, an Episcopalian clergyman with a starveling country parish - is a worthy addition to Marshall's series of humble bewildered priests. He is saddened by his daughter's disgrace, but being full to the brim of human charity forgives her trespass and makes Soutar welcome in his austere but happy home.

Bumpie is an enchanting creation. As much Lilith as Eve, a fascinating mixture of giggling adolescence just out of childhood and unscrupulous femininity on the verge of maturity, she lures the bemused but conscience-stricken Watson into a delicious labyrinth of fun and innocent love making. Their romance is one of stolen meetings and kisses after dark. They have their private language and their many private jokes, while around them move the motley crowd of absurdities of all ages who constitute for Marshall the population of St. Andrews.

Jacket by William Barss

Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 56-5956
Printed by The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts

"In affectionate memory of William Philip Dunlop, who suggested that I should write a love story" - Bruce Marshall

Language: English

Pages: 243

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Boston

Release: May 22, 2022

Girl in May

2.6/5 ( ratings)

Front and back inside flap text:
There is always an idyllic streak even in the bitterest and most mocking of Bruce Marshall's novels, so that this full-length Marshall story of young love was perhaps to be expected. Girl in May is a tender and charming romance between a heroine of seventeen and a hero of the same age - staged during the Kaiser war in and about St. Andrews, and vividly alive with the gay precocity, the courage and the exuberance of youth.

Duncan Soutar and Moragh Dunwoodie are respectively a first year student at the University and a schoolgirl just expelled from boarding school for helping to entertain two boys at a dormitory feast. Bumpie's father - Canon Dunwoodie, an Episcopalian clergyman with a starveling country parish - is a worthy addition to Marshall's series of humble bewildered priests. He is saddened by his daughter's disgrace, but being full to the brim of human charity forgives her trespass and makes Soutar welcome in his austere but happy home.

Bumpie is an enchanting creation. As much Lilith as Eve, a fascinating mixture of giggling adolescence just out of childhood and unscrupulous femininity on the verge of maturity, she lures the bemused but conscience-stricken Watson into a delicious labyrinth of fun and innocent love making. Their romance is one of stolen meetings and kisses after dark. They have their private language and their many private jokes, while around them move the motley crowd of absurdities of all ages who constitute for Marshall the population of St. Andrews.

Jacket by William Barss

Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 56-5956
Printed by The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts

"In affectionate memory of William Philip Dunlop, who suggested that I should write a love story" - Bruce Marshall

Language: English

Pages: 243

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Boston

Release: May 22, 2022

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