Light and Shade

by R.A. Dick, Josephine Leslie

Selina Victoria Verney was eighty, but this was her first chance to fulfil her ambition and travel. So she set off for Central Africa to visit her youngest son, taking her eighteen-year-old granddaughter Jane with her.

253 pages, Hardback

First published January 1, 1956

About the author

R.A. Dick was the pseudonym of Josephine Leslie (Josephine Aimee Campbell Leslie), an Irish writer who wrote the 1945 novel The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. The book was made into a movie in 1947 starring Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders and Natalie Wood. It was also a television series in the 1960's. She also wrote The Devil and Mrs Devine.

Reviews

[flajol · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very dated. The grand-daughter is annoying, the outcome predictable. The only thing to recommend it are the contrasting internal monologues of the Selina and Jane that show how the characters constantly misunderstand each other.