A Lion in the Garden

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TIME: the summer of 1939. Place: England. This combination could — and has — produced novels which, if they were not desperate, were sadly silly. But the writer of A Lion in the Garden is G. B. Stern. Quietly, with all the sure skill at her command. Miss Stern has fixed her eyes on a small island in the Thames, and, looking at the people who inhabit it, she has laughed with a good salty guffaw which sweeps you into the joke, and carries you straight through to the last page. Norman Pascoe is as unforgettable as Polly, and he and the lion which shaped his whole life are a heartening sign that England — in the persons of such people as G. B. Stern — still knows humor when she sees it.