[4] In Last Straw for Harriet (1947), Cadell writes a "social comedy of the first order, hilarious, gay and given just the right touch", according to The Courier-Journal.
[5] Her third novel, Gay Pursuit (1948), tells the story of an American woman who marries into a British family who live in Devonshire.
[8] The movie rights for Gay Pursuit were purchased by Twentieth Century Fox for $27,000 in 1948 with Rex Harrison meant to be the main star.
[10] Her next novel, River Lodge (1948), was called "a pleasant, gay book which grips the attention from start to finish" by The Age.
[14] Spring Green (1953) was called by The Observer an "unexpectedly good light romance of gentry, and Americans, love and mystery, in a remote English village".
[21] In 1960, her novel The Yellow Brick Road was chosen by the American Library Association as an "Interesting Adult Book of 1960 for Young People".
[28] Marcia M. Baker in The Cincinnati Enquirer, wrote that The Past Tense of Love was "good for reading while under a hairdryer, or on the beach, or in a hammock".
[35] Library Journal called The Waiting Game (1985) a "deftly plotted story of misdirected love and unrealized relationships".