![]() ![]() Westwood introduces the reader to the world of Gerard Challis, high ranking civil servant and experimental playwright, viewed through the adoring gaze of young teacher Margaret Steggles. Thanks to the efforts of writer Lynne Truss, Westwood enjoyed a revival in the form of a radio adaptation and was subsequently reissued by Vintage Classics in 2011. ![]() However, like her other twenty-five novels, Westwood was completely eclipsed by this early success and remained out of print for many years. The popular and financial success of Cold Comfort Farm, published that year, had allowed her to give up her first career in journalism. When Westwood was published, Gibbons had already been writing fiction full-time since 1932. As a local resident, Gibbons was well-placed to satirise the posturing and pretensions of the artistic types she draws her bead on in the novel. Stella Gibbons’s Westwood portrays life and manners in Highgate and Hampstead during the Second World War. ![]()
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