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I hadn't been aware that Grace Metalious had written any novels besides Peyton Place and its sequel, but this is surely proof otherwise. It's yet another account of the hidden side of life in a small New England mill town, as conveyed through a succession of individual backstories, but I quite enjoyed it. Metalious was typecast as a dirty-minded scandalmonger by the social mindset of the 50s, but there's nothing in here for the modern reader to find especially salacious, and it's now simply a decent story with better-than-usual insight into the human condition. I'm looking forward to tackling her final novel (No Adam in Eden) next.