Serendipity, coincidence, ingenuity, and just plain dumb luck are all on the side of plucky heroine Lois Cayley in Grant Allen's Miss Cayley's Adventures. At times the perfection of Miss Cayley wears a bit thin, but her personality and observations remain enjoyable throughout. While the book wa...
Lois Cayley is the quick-witted, sharp-tongued, stout-hearted heroine of this sweet little novel. She's so clever and masterful that her various triumphs come as no surprise, but her asides are so amusing that her near-perfection is never annoying. The quips and bon mots are hilarious (see my stat...
[These notes were made in 1989:]. I rather like Mr. Allen's poems on the whole. He's pretty conventional in form, but he has more than occasionally a nice turn of phrase, and more than once I recognized a pattern of thought without feeling it was a cliché - more on the order of "yes, I've thought ...
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