The Walking Stick

This outstanding novel is the story of a girl of 26 who has been crippled in her childhood.<br><br>The story tells how Deborah Dainton convinced of her physical lack of attractiveness for men becomes gradually persuaded of the reality of one man's love for her; it tells how warmed by this love she blossoms into the full self-abnegation of a woman in love - and so moves into a life that leads by small but sinister steps into a full co-operation in a precisely executed and dangerous enterprise - described as it occurs minute by minute in masterly detail.<br><br>As in his earlier books Winston Graham writes here of a crisis in the lives of people for whom character governs destiny. His people conceived in the round with backgrounds that make them as they are act out a high drama with all its consequences material and moral.<br><br>This is a book which will tempt the reader to speed on to discover the fate of these people - yet no one will want to miss the texture and the turns of fate that lie along the way.