After forty years in the field Noel Streatfeild, incredibly, can still tell a story with the same glow and the same sturdy common-sense beneath the sparkle. Far To Go is a sequel to Thursday's Child. Margaret Thursday, the orphan with the mysterious antecedents, is as cocky as ever and as talented….

The story is, appropriately enough, pure melodrama. This matters little, for Miss Streatfeild has always been able to turn dross into gold. The splendid heroine dominates the action and the well-drawn group of eccentrics who surround her. Surely a winner with children, both in its book form and in the television version which must surely follow.