I love Jean Stafford, and this was her first book. It's promising but she did way better later with her masterpiece The Mountain Lion and her short stories. I loved those works so much that I read a biography of the author. This is probably loosely based on her life, a book where she talks of a childhood with a father who deserts them and a mother who eventually becomes mentally ill. Jean becomes a secretary for a rich woman writing her memoirs later on. The problem for me laid with the length. It was over 400 pages. I loved the first hundred, but it started to run out of steam.
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