Smouldering Fire by D.E. Stevenson - 1972

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

First Published 1938, Renewed 1966 and New Edition 1972, 1st Ed 1st Prtg, of this edition. Very slight Hint of tilt, minimal library distinctions, pocket removed, else, contents appear as unblemished & unread in fine light blue cloth covered board in like poly protected DJ
Stevenson's 6th book, first published by Herbert Jenkins in 1935, is set in a remote farming community of the Scottish Highlands with the plot rotating around the custody of the child of divorced parents (a wicked father and a loving devoted mother)
.The Miss Duncle books will set the key for sales -- and rentals -- of this new book, though customers should know that it is in less humorous vein. Scotland, the setting, good local color, leisurely pace, an idealized romance, written with gentle charm. The story of a romance of youth coming to new fire when the man and woman meet again, years later, under different circumstances, -- and of how sheer chance endangers the woman's ultimate happiness and… Read More