The Willow Cabin Hardcover 1951 Vintage Book Pamela Frankau

The curtain rose upon the company standing in line. From the third row of the stalls, Margaret Radcliffe-Preston observed her daughter Caroline, who was giggling at some private joke with the young man who had played the part of the detective. This was entirely to be expected of Caroline. Obviously she was not in the least impressed with her good fortune. "At twenty two" Margaret thought "with her small experience, it is something to have a part in a Brookfield play. And a part that is not unimportant. She looks as though she doesn't care. She isn't even bowing with the others. She just goes on giggling at that boy; her manners are terrible". She tried to excuse the girl on the grounds that the success of Jay Brookfield's intellectual thriller might not be apparent from Caroline's side of the footlights. Yet surely, this solid applause, these rocketing shouts of "Author!" must make it plain. "It will run a year" said the man on Margaret's left "And if it did" Margaret thought, "Caroline would still be unimpressed"

In good condition, some writing, staining on inside cover and dot on the front cover from where a sticker was located.