No Love Lost is Helen Van Sly ke at her best:

a splendid family story spanning three

generations of extraordinary and- very dif-

ferent wives, written with Van Slyke s keen

understanding of the conflicts that beset

the modern woman.

America was struggling through the

Depression when Pauline Thresher, the

beautiful wife of a powerful banker, left

her husband of twenty-five years because

she could no longer bear his flagrant in-

fidelity. Sara Thresher, her wise and com-

passionate mother-in-law, understood too

well that wealth and position could not

compensate for marriage to a cold, domi-

neering man. She chose to go with

Pauline, even though it meant a cruel

and perhaps irrevocable estrangement

from her own son. But Lindsay, Pauline s

lovely, willful daughter, stood on the thresh-

old of a different world--a world which

would demand all her resilience and deter-

ruination if she was to survive as her

own woman