SOURCE: "Jennie's Clever Trick of Vanishing," The New York Times Book Review, August 31, 1947, p. 7.

In the following review, Chase offers a mixed assessment of Not Now but Now.

At first careless glance one might wonder why the author of How to Cook a Wolf and other books of culinary exoticism should try her hand at fiction. Strictly speaking, Mrs. Fisher has not produced a unified narrative [in Not Now But Now]. Upon a not too cumbersome framework, she has created four stories involving the girl Jennie, at different periods of time and in quite separate settings. But no matter what the circumstances, Jennie is always an extraordinary gal, possessing a quality that raises havoc wherever she appears. In the early pages the author gives this frank appraisal of Jennie:

She attended to herself as if she were a trainer with a fine show-bitch: baths and feedings and exercise...