An austere young scientist is humanized by a brilliant lawyer and his beautiful wife, romance ensues. Scarce sixth book by the author of *Goodbye, Mr. Chips!* and *Lost Horizon.*.
James Hilton was an English novelist and screenwriter. He is best remembered for his novels Lost Horizon, Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Random Harvest, as well as co-writing screenplays for the films Camille (1936) and Mrs. Miniver (1942), the latter earning him an Academy Award.
I made the proofing of this book for Free Literature and Project Gutenberg will publish it.
This is the sixth book written by James Hilton. In this novel, the author appears as a secondary character. And according to E.M. Forster in Aspects of the novel, evey novel has some autobiographical hints of the author.