MAYBE it can be done. They tell us, now that Queen Elizabeth was a man, and hid it from everybody but a chosen few for a matter of half a century. This book, evidently, is an expose of the way she did it, except that, by reverse English, the girl in the book was really a woman.
Leonora Canwick enlists in the A. E. F. and get quite a bit older while she is trying to keep from the inquisitive people she meets the fact of her sex. The subject admits of any number of subtleties most of which are driven home with that quiet nicety of steam riveters working opposite your window early in the morning.
The story, then, is an imaginative one, and those who have thought of going on a long-term masquerade on a big scale will do well to study it. But to this reviewer, at any rate, it was just another proof of the dictum that direction of the imagination into desirable channels is the secret of a happy and virtuous life.
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