A Little Flat in the Temple

"'Do you feel all right, my darling?' Mrs. Harrington came into the library and stood behind her son's chair. As she looked down at his head she wondered if there were any torture to equal the torture of a mother when she realizes that her son is thinking about some woman who, ten to one, will make him wretched if he marries her." ~ from A Little Flat in the Temple by Pamela Wynne

I haven't held an actual physical book in years because I read everything on my Nook, but I learned about this book which was the basis for one of my favorite Leslie Howard movies, Devotion.

It has been out of print for eons and I could only find it on Amazon, but I just had to read it. It has that smell and feel of an old library book that has been held and poured over by hundreds of girls, all of whom probably read it under the covers at night hoping their mothers wouldn't find it and take it away. It is pretty racy for 1930.

Leslie Howard and Ann Harding in Devotion, Produced and Distributed by RKO, Directed by Robert Milton, Precode 1931

[Leslie Howard and Ann Harding
in Devotion, 1931]

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