Milton Place Category_Grey Books/Family Polly Toynbee ends her preface

Polly Toynbee ends her preface by asking what Maud Pember Reeves would think nowadays

66 years after John Moore’s death some of his deepest forebodings are coming true before our very eyes

which is so unlike anything else ever written about pregnancy

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Milton Place Category_Grey Books/Family Polly Toynbee ends her prefacePREFACE BY VICTOR DE WAAL AFTERWORD BY PETER STANSKY 344pp ISBN 9781910263211 Milton Place (PB. No. 131) is that rare thing for us a book published from typescript rather than from a previously printed edition. It was untitled, as The Exiles Return had been. It is about a large house in the country in the early 1950s: Anita, a young woman who had lived in Austria throughout the war years and was now exhausted and unhappy, comes to stay with the owner