The book is well-produced, up to the high printing and editorial standards reflected in the earlier volumes of this series. It is a welcome addition to the Complete Works project and is entitled to receive critical support for one of Waugh's books that has been sadly and unjustifiably neglected.
Sara Haslam is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature and Faculty Director of Research Degrees at the Open University. She is the author of Fragmenting Modernism: Ford Madox Ford, the Novel and the Great War (Manchester, 2002) and co-author of Life Writing (Routledge, 2008), has edited five of Ford's works, and is editor, or co-editor, of The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford (2019) and three volumes of International Ford
Madox Ford Studies. She has published widely on Ford, modernism, and war literature, and has also written on Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and the Brontës. She is currently researching First World War bibliotherapy, and her article on Helen Mary Gaskell's War Library was published in the Journal of Medical Humanities (2018).