"Not So Quiet...". Stepdaughters of War.

First edition. Crown 8vo. 239pp. Publisher's reddish-white weave linen, lined and stamped in red to spine and front. Priced 5/- net to dustwrapper spine panel.

Light offsetting to endpapers, dusting to top edge, slight spotting to fore-edge, minor closed tear to fold of upper dustwrapper panel, else a fine copy.

Awarded the Prix Severigne in France as "the novel most calculated to promote international peace". A fictionalised war memoir based on the (now lost) diaries of Winifred Young, who served on the Western Front as an ambulance driver. Engaged by Netley Lucas, a confidence trickster and petty criminal going by the name of Albert E. Marriott, to produce a spoof of Remarque's anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front, Evadne Price under her pen name of Helen Zenna Smith instead wrote a woman's war story very much in sync with Remarque's pacifist viewpoint. Unpaid any royalties, other than a paltry £50 advance, the copyright reverted to her upon Lucas's (unrelated) conviction for literary fraud and the book was republished as fiction by George Newnes. "The reader . . . is immediately gripped by its furious, indignant power." –Chicago Sun-Times