... : Reviewed by Trevor Allen U.S. novelists are certainly thorough. Mr. Louis Zara, for example, isn't content merely to portray the first fourteen years or so of his heroine Ruth Middleton (W. H. Allen, 10s. 6d.). He devotes a first chapter to her pre natal growth in biological detail, with running commentary by the parents on progress so far and appropriate Biblical quotation; and I've no ...