Arundel, Honor - Judith Aldridge
JUDITH ALDRIDGE
Janet's analytical honesty enables the reader [of The Terrible Temptation] to see her fully through the first person narration, at times to dislike or to pity her, share her happiness and hope that she will appreciate the value of Thomas, in whom affection and concern for people are uppermost. Without moralising, Honor Arundel presents dramatically the cost of fear and selfishness alongside the responsibilities but greater happiness of generosity of spirit.
The university background is lightly sketched only, as indeed are most of the characters; appropriately since Janet's main concern is with herself. They convince nevertheless, and offer scope for the reader's imagination.
A lively, credible story which resists the temptation to force a happy ending.
Judith Aldridge, "Fiction: 'The Terrible Temptation'," in Children's Book Review (© 1971 by Five Owls Press Ltd.: all rights reserved), Vol. 1, No....
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