Book description
Caroline Denton-Smyth is an eccentric, dressed in trailing feathers and
jangling beads, peering out from behind her lorgnette. Sitting alone in
her West Kensington bedsitter, she dreams of the Christian Cinema
Company - her vehicle for reform. For Caroline sees herself as a
pioneer, one who must risk everything for the 'Cause of the Right'. Her
Board of Directors is a motley crew including Basil St Denis, upper
crust but impecunious; Joseph Isenbaum, aspiring to Society and Eton for
his son; Eleanor de la Roux, Caroline's independent cousin from South
Africa; Hugh Macafee, a curt Scottish film technician; young Father
Mortimer, scarred from the First World War; and Clifton Johnson, a seedy
American scenario writer on the make. Winifred Holtby affectionately
observes the foibles of human nature in this sparkiling satire, first
published in 1931. Winifred Holtby (1898-1935), journalist, critic,
feminist, pacifist and author won the James Tait Black Memorial prize
with South Riding, her last novel.
