The Hattons of Stanford Hall [in The Children of the House] belong to the privileged classes but life for the children is one of scant food and strict discipline…. [The] Hattons led a strangely tribal life, ceremonial, ingenious and tolerably happy.
This life is pieced together in one episode after another. A lucid prose style in which every word counts makes these episodes unsensationally vivid….
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