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Scandal of Spring

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Country
  
Australia

Publication date
  
1934

Pages
  
245 pp

Author
  
Publisher
  
J. M. Dent

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Language
  
Media type
  
Print

Originally published
  
1934

Genre
  
Fiction

Preceded by
  
Similar
  
The Cardboard Crown, Outbreak of Love, When Blackbirds Sing, Lucinda Brayford

Scandal of Spring (1934) is a novel by Australian writer Martin Boyd.

Contents

Story outline

Set in a small English seaside village, the novel follows the story of the youth John Vazetti with lives with his parents in a cottage with tearooms attached. John falls in love with a young woman, Madge, who is visiting family in the village. Although their relatives try to push the two apart they eventually run off to London where John is arrested and imprisoned.

Critical reception

A reviewer in The Courier-Mail found that this "is a book of youth, misunderstood and battered by the blindness and prejudice of the hide-bound middle-aged. Put so baldly, it sounds commonplace, but there is nothing commonplace in the beautifully-written story. It tells with that delicacy of touch that is part of Mr. Martin Boyd's charm."

In The Age, the reviewer was rather dismissive, noting: "Mr Boyd needs a bigger and better theme for the display of his literary talents."

References

Scandal of Spring Wikipedia


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