SOURCE: A review of Corrigan, in Los Angeles Times Book Review, July 28, 1985, pp. 3, 5.

In the review below, Kendall explains the transformation of Devina Blunt from a depressed widow to a lively, caring woman.

Gentle, compliant and accomplished at all the wifely graces, Devina Blunt [the protagonist of Corrigan] never had the slightest ambition to be anything but the Colonel's Lady, a role she fulfilled to perfection. Widowed now for three years, she still half expects to hear her husband's footsteps in the hall. His tweeds hang in the wardrobe; his shoes gleam in their rack; his shirts fill the drawers. These days, her only excursion is a stroll to the village churchyard to place flowers on his grave. Devina has never learned to drive, and, until the Colonel's death, had never even written a check. He had always managed their lives as if marriage were a colony and...