While somewhat predictable, I found myself much touched by this 1959 novel laid in Scotland and Switzerland, It is the seventh Cronin novel I have read, and I liked the good Catholic touches in it, complete with evocation of Francis Thompson's "Hound of Heaven." A Scottish boy becomes a doctor, his friend becomes a priest, the girl who was a friend of the priest marries a dislkeable man but comes to the place in Switzerland where the doctor is, together with her young son--a very appealing kind of boy, dislked for no apparent reason by the doctor. I found the story poignant and finished it with a very friendly feeling for the author, who died in Switzerland in 1981. ( )

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