The Blind Heart.

Bookseller Notes

Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'For my dear Irene, the very first, with love, Margaret Storm Jameson' - the inscription suggesting that this edition precedes its English counterpart, 'The Aristide Case'. The recipient was the novelist Irene Rathbone, a 2pp. typed letter to whom is laid in, dated March 18 1964, thanking her for her 'warm generous overgiving praise of my book [...] I shall fall back on it under the knives of the young men; she discusses some of the background to the book, and insists that she won't send it 'to the Legrands, because I am sure it full of errors about French law; she confesses that 'it's so much easier to write about horrid people that I do it too often' and adds that 'when I look into my own heart, the horrors I see frighten me. They really do'; on a more domestic front, a recent visit to their property in Cambridge has identified all sorts of issues. Rathbone's notes to the text are in many instances approving - 'Very very good & perceptive'; 'How awfully well this prostitute is drawn' - but in other places critical on points of plot or description.