Laura’s Reviews > Call for the Dead > Status Update

“Give a man a car of his own and he leave humility and common sense behind him in the garage.”

“… travelled without labels in the guard’s van of the social express, and soon became lost luggage, destined, when the divorce had come and gone, to remain unclaimed on the dusty shelf of yesterday’s news.” 3/3

“… But gossip must see its characters in black and white, equipment them with sins and motives easily conveyed in the shorthand of conversation. And so Smiley, without school, parents, regiment, or trade, without wealth or poverty,…” 2/

“Was he rich or poor, peasant or priest?where had she got him from? The incongruity of the match was emphasized by Lady Ann’s undoubted beauty, its mystery stimulated by the disproportion between the man and his bride….” 1/