"Josephine Lawrence's novels ahve been called 'the voice of the people' and in this book that voice is talking with its accustomed eloquence about the pressing problems, financial and psychological, of those who are forced at a given moment to relinquish what has been the dominant interest of their lives. This is a family story in every sense of the word, filled with the urgency of small crises, the pathos of inconspicuous heroism, the insights that cumulatively reveal the human aspect of our modern world" -- Jacket flap.