... talent to telling the story of some more remote forbears, the Bussons, and has chosen to give the saga the form of a novel. Speaking as an addict of unadorned, and preferably unromanticised, biographies, I could wish that Miss du Maurier's new book were ...

... for a few hours in a tent taken for the purpose. Their second and last kip was near Penrith. Their account of the journey speaks of glimpsing the cold glittering sea at mid night at Charmouth in Dorset; of the prison lights at Princetown appearing through ...