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NICHOLAS TUCKER

Honor Arundel's A Family Failing … seems to me … admirably justified in that young readers would not at the moment be able to find the same witty, perceptive discussion of some immediate, adolescent issues from other sources…. Miss Arundel … sails straight into an up-to-date treatment of communes, disenchantment with universities, disillusion over quarrelling parents, aggravated by the father's redundancy, with a sympathy and intelligence that is very appealing. A Family Failing, above all, is not that most dreary thing, a problem book. Rather it is about real people who have problems, but an independent existence of their own too. (p. 69)

Nicholas Tucker, "Catching Fire: 'A Family Failing'," in New Statesman (© 1972 The Statesman & Nation Publishing Co. Ltd.), Vol. 84, No. 2173, November 10, 1972, pp. 690, 692.∗

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1. Introduction
2. Robert Bell
3. Polly Goodwin
4. S. L. Blanford
5. Linda Crowe
6. Zena Sutherland
7. Mrs. J. M. Murphy
8. Margery Fisher
9. Mrs. J. Aldridge
10. Margery Fisher
11. Julia G. Russell
12. Judith Aldridge
13. John W. Conner
14. Nicholas Tucker
15. John W. Conner
16. Margery Fisher
17. Celia Boyd
18. Judith Aldridge
19. Vivienne Furlong
20. J. Russell
21. John Rowe Townsend
22. Eleanore Braun Luckey
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