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by the same author as BLISS and other stories

Miss Mansfield's stories are like life reflected in a round mirror. Everything is exquisitely bright, exquisitely distinct and just a little queer. — The Nation

BLISS is the sort of book that spoils one for everything else … it is impossible to appraise really good work; all one can do is to recognise it when one sees it, to say simply ‘this is a fine book’ — Pall Mall

They arrest by their competence, their realism, their irony and wit; they are an expression, symbolic almost, of her times … Written with such sureness and skill … Beauty a high order. — J.C. Squire in the Observer

This book places Miss Mansfield as the best of our contemporary writers of fiction. — Cambridge Review

Miss Mansfield has the genius that can make a short story out of nothing … the same admirably restrained touch, the same understanding will be found in every one of the stories. — Evening Standard