pThese stories, variously set in South Africa, England, and Germany between the late 19th and the late 20th century, were written at intervals through the long life of the writer. They are concerned with love and hate, guilt and loneliness, generational rebellion and also with prejudice in matters of Race, Religion and Class - in every case from an unexpected angle.ppThe story of a wife and mother who is deeply content with her family life, believing it bound securely by faithful love, touches lightly but ominously on the precariousness of happiness.ppA woman, blaming the cold snobbery of her wealthy parents for her loneliness, tries but fails to find happiness through marriage into a lower class.ppA teenage girl tells the story of her heroic half-sister, for whose tragic fate in childhood she mistakenly blames herself.ppA Jewish woman, sensitive to the prejudice against her own race, is unconscious of the fault in herself, and while imagining herself to be the subject of injustice is