Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award



"An agreeably readable first novel . . . light-hearted throughout, and altogether the book is a promising beginning to Mr Princes career as a novelist." - J. G. Farrell, The Listener



"Mr Prince is absolutely first class. His short book grips as a story . . . Its exciting, relevant, a whole-sale gift for the top-notch department." - Oswell Blakeston, Books and Bookmen



"[A] newcomer who looks worth watching . . . Prince contrives to make [his] hero entirely sympathetic . . . he creates an air of hope and...