
As World War II drags on, the lonely Miss Roach flees London for the dull but ostensible safety of a suburban boarding house in this comically rendered "masterpiece" from the author of Gaslight (The Times Literary Supplement) England in the middle...



This wartime story of loneliness and homeless peole is set in an English boarding-house run by a thrifty widow. The effects of war on this isolated group--particularly the entrance of an American serviceman into lonely Miss Roach's life--are aptly told.


