Diana and the Wise Man — Alistair Mair

In his two earlier novels, Alistair Mair dealt with both human psychological problems and slightly more humorous financial difficulties. In this, his third novel, he deals with the problem of a young woman doctor and a rather older man, brought together by tragedy and separated by the almost insoluble difficulties of modern life; social inequality, difference in religion, opposing outlooks on all conventional life. How Diana and her Wise Man coped with their joint and individual problems is the basis of this beautiful and poignant love-story. In its telling, Alistair Mair has reached heights of delicate perception which will go far to confirming his position as one of the most promising of the younger novelists.