SOURCE: “New Novels,” in New Statesman & Nation, Vol. 13, No. 308, January 16, 1937, p. 86.

In the following favorable review of The East Wind of Love, Quennell asserts that although the novel is too long, it is “decidedly readable.”

In the list of books that have influenced one's early development—aroused one to the possibilities of literature or egged one on to probe the mysteries of adult life—books one now considers memorable are extremely few. It is not until much later that the fascination of an Education Sentimentale or the retrospective beauty of a Dominique begins to make itself felt. Meanwhile, we absorb our intellectual nourishment at second hand; and between thirteen and fourteen I myself fell deeply under the spell of Mr. Compton Mackenzie and, encouraged by the belief that my parents and my friends' parents had voted it a dangerous and improper work, read Sinister Street from cover to...