Three o'Clock Dinner is a well wrought and sensitive novel set in a sleepy South Carolina city. The contrast of swiftly moving events is effective. A conflict develops between two families as a result of a marriage cutting across religious, traditional, political, social, and sexual views. The total development and climax, all seemingly inevitable, deal tragically with all the many individuals involved. There is no compromise ending.

Let Us Consider One Another is a somewhat loosely strung and sentimental novel about a New England girl who makes a religious intermarriage. Her struggles with prejudice in and out of her family are sympathetically portrayed. The end result is not given. The closing is on an optimistic note with a quotation from Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, “Let Us Consider One Another.”

It seems that the feminist movement has progressed very well for there is nothing in these two novels that proves they have been written by women. [A.N.F.]