Sir Arthur Ronald Fraser

A House In the Park

Jonathan Cape, 1937.

A horseman leaving the Botanical Gardens on his right hand would see through the trees and thickets on his left an aloof, shapely house, painted cream...beside its own water

Kent House, where the Stokes children live in the years before and after the First World War, is clearly The Holme. 'On Sundays and Bank Holidays the lake fairly swarmed with boats'.

Ann Saunders, in Regent's Park From 1086 To the Present, says of it: 'Not a good novel but worth reading for its evocation of a leisured life in idyllic surroundings.'