Description
The petty restrictions, irksome controls, and generally stultifying after-effects of war years, produce in most of us positive reactions; but it is given to few to be able to break away and go adventuring.
The story of Henry, a retired colonel, and Kirstin his Danish wife, tells how one couple at least gave up nursing their post-war frustrations. Their idea was to take an old call and proceed leisurely to some far-flung outpost which was still marked in red on the map, but lotus-eating reached its climax at Cyprus, after a journey full of incident, delightfully set down.
Such are the soothing powers of this Mediterranean isle that Henry, and Kirstin, dilly-dallied to the point of deciding, after amusing encounters with the “locals”, there is no purpose in going further. Thus a cottage in Kyrenia is the unlooked-forl goal of their escape.
The whole is narrated with a deftness and humour readers would expect from the author of such books as Pigeon Hoo, about which The Field said: “As near perfect as any book has a right to be.”
