FORREST, Maryann The Immaculate Misconception. London: Michael Joseph1972
8vo. Publishers original brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial dust jacket; frontispiece and fivefull-page pen illustrations by Polly Hope in the text block; pp. 225; minimal closed tear in the top left hand corner of the dust jacket; otherwsie fine.
Christopher Folwer in The Book of Forgotten Authors would write of Maryann Forrest's The Immaculate Misconception, "A claustrophobic and mysterious third novel, inspired by her own family….London became less colourful without her". Ever successful in her ability to meld the serious with humour, she experiments originally with comedy and horror in this tale of heorine Buttercup Jones who exists as part of an 'Organisation', struggling with the difficulties of her husbands career and the realistion that her children may not be all that they seem…..
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