Charles Poore wrote in The New York Times that the novel was "ruthlessly sentimental" and "a cheerful mixture of Goodbye Mr. Chips and Mary Poppins, with touches of the rigorous way to salvation from Life With Father."
Page decided to forgo their usual vacation at Swan's Neck, a resort on the Carolina coast, and take their two daughters on a tour of the northeastern seaboard.
Page & their son Alex alone... "The Man Jones," March 26, 1955 Fiction ABSTRACT - Jim, a freshman at an Eastern college, took pains to behave in a more worldly manner than people in his home town, Apex, Georgia.
A letter arrived from his mother, enclosing... "The Game," May 9, 1953 Fiction ABSTRACT - Lillian Duncan runs into a childhood girlfriend and takes her home to tea, hoping to impress her with her wealth, of which she is very proud.
To raise money the ladies had men's suppers, they tried juvenile theatricals, and published a... A Piece of Luck," April 01, 1950 Fiction ABSTRACT - In Durham, N.C. a group of Negroes stood waiting for a bus to take them to the clinic at Duke Hospital.
She got in with the town's elite set and stopped seeing faculty children for a... "A Nice Name," February 26, 1949 Fiction ABSTRACT - Josephine Archer, a serious matron in her forties, who lives in North Carolina, writes a letter to a newspaper suggesting reforms in the teaching of elementary Latin.
She had been bored by the visit and looked forward to getting back to her two children, Chuck, aged 18, and Julia, two years younger, and her husband... "First Principles," January 8, 1949 Fiction ABSTRACT - The Wades' Christmas had been very nice although there had been trouble beforehand.
The two younger boys and the rest... "The Face of Life," May 8, 1948 Fiction ABSTRACT - Mrs. Potter, a small town faculty wife, mother of three children, unexpectedly gets a check for $100 from her godmother.
Page looks forward to a dinner party with a great deal of anticipation as her husband had suggested that the family follow an austerity program for the past few weeks.
As a result, she was really hungry for good food... "And Hearts In Heaven," January 17, 1948 Fiction ABSTRACT - An Anglican priest comes to a Southern town and all the children dutifully go to services every afternoon during Lent.
The author, a girl of 11 at the time, is greatly impressed with Father Tipton and longs to confess to him, except that she hasn't committed any sins.
When her... "The Falling Leaves," November 22, 1947 Fiction ABSTRACT - Harriet Blake, a suburban New Yorker, goes to live in her husband's home state in the South.
They both take her criticism... "In a Philadelphia Park," September 6, 1947 Fiction ABSTRACT - A family: mother, father and 12-year-old twin girls are on their way home from the North to Durham, N.C.
Page is forced to... "The Educated Classes," March 1, 1947 Fiction ABSTRACT - Professor Potter wants his daughter Elinor, aged 13, to achieve a sort of mental discipline as he feels she is not serious enough.