4m, 6f / Scenery: InteriorThe Conways are having a party to celebrate Kay's twenty first birthday. Kay hopes to be a novelist. Hazel, the beauty, anticipates a romantic marriage. Madge wants to reform the world and marry the dashing young family lawyer. Carol, the baby of the family, spreads good cheer while Robin, back from war, is certain to have a good career. Alan is content to be an armchair philosopher. The nitwit mother has high hopes for them all. At the party Kay, with frightening clarity, sees her family twenty years in the future. They are petty, mean, and unfulfilled. Only Kay and her calm brother realize time is relative and there is something fine and worthwhile beyond.
- ISBN10 0435227114
- ISBN13 9780435227111
- Publish Date December 1964 (first published 1 January 1939)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 July 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pearson Education Limited
- Format Paperback
- Language English