From the Car Behind

by Eleanor M. Ingram

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First published January 1, 1911

Reviews

[Lucy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book took a few pages to get into but when it got going with the event that happened near the beginning (the car crash with what looks like Corrie causing Gerrard to be badly hurt) and then the ripple effects on all the relationships between this small group of people (the Rose Family, Allan and Rupert), it got very interesting. I loved the trio of Mr. Rose-Corrie-Flavia and Corrie-Allan-Rupert as they all try to deal with what had happened.

I feel like Isobel got the short end of the stick in the book and I could have done without giving her the villain treatment but I did appreciate that she also got her happy ending with what sounds like a very loving and sensible man. I quite liked the 'character has flaw and then has to deal with the consequences of having that flaw' even if it worked out quite a bit differently than I thought.

Definitely going to read more of Ingram's books!

[grosbeak · Rating 4 out of 5]

Didn’t love the Bad Sporty Girl/Good Inside Girl dichotomy (and the “twist” was really obvious), but I did find the idyllic happy family of Corrie, Flavia, and Mr Rose very charming. And Rupert was a delightful character, as always—thank god someone is allowed to be snarky and impertinent!

[J. · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun look at the attitudes toward automobiles and slang of the early 1900's. A story about car racing and honor. A little bit of light romance.

[Louie the Mustache Matos · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bear with me, please, because this might take a bit. Late last year, a 1921 novel came into my hands called, The Thing from the Lake written by Eleanor M. Ingram. That book is marvelous, and if you have not read it, consider yourself a horror fan, or want to find an obscure, top-notch read, that novel fits the bill. It's free on most e-book platforms like Gutenberg.

I was so taken with the work that I elected to do some research on Ingram, only to find that she died shortly after publishing Thing from the Lake at the ripe old age of 35. Thing was her fifth book and it is the only horror she wrote, which is down-right disappointing. None of these other pieces she wrote were anywhere near as good, but I've picked them up to be a completist. I'm flipping obsessive that way.

From the Car Behind is really a kind of slice of life. sports racing, lifestyles of the rich and famous kind of story. Where boy meets girl. Boy gets injured. Boy loses girl. And more of that romantic happy crappy disguised as a sports racing story. It's not terrible, but very reminiscent of the turn of the century slice-of-life stories that could be found in all of the magazines. It's not bad, but also not very original.

[Kay · Rating 5 out of 5]

From the Car Behind is about Corrie, an amateur racer, his friend, a professional racer, and his sister. It consists of love, romance, jealousy, anger, and racing cars.
I enjoyed reading (and will probably re-read it many more times) and I highly recommend it.