Arundel, Honor - Zena Sutherland
ZENA SUTHERLAND
Although attention moves, with each chapter [of The Two Sisters], from one of the Cafferty sisters to another, the whole is remarkably smooth and the author achieves (perhaps in part by this device) both a feeling of the family as a unit and a sense that Maura and Caroline are distinct and separate people, each the center of her own world…. The changes that take place are realistic: Maura, with marriage and maturity, understands her parents better and Caroline, a pre-adolescent, begins to feel the independence and perception that mark the beginning of maturity. A sensible and sensitive story of an Edinburgh family.
Zena Sutherland, "New Titles for Children and Young People: 'The Two Sisters'," in Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (© 1969 by the University of Chicago; all rights reserved), Vol. 22, No. 11, July-August, 1969, p. 169.
Honor Arundel is well known for her...
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