A simple plot summary would make If Winter Comes appear very melodramatic and didactic. Hutchinson's style in the novel works to lessen, although not eliminate, those tendencies. Humor is one saving grace: for example, Mark and his wife have two servants, sisters named Jinks. Mark nicknames them Hi-Jinks and Lo-Jinks. Their appearance in the plot occasionally breaks the tension, and the last word of the book is theirs, a comic underpinning to the dramatic reunion of Mark and Nona.
A second and more effective device is the use of Mark's friend Hapgood as narrator. A minor.....
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