Mrs. Stolz' "To Tell Your Love" introduced a talented new writer. Like that novel, "The Organdy Cupcakes" is witty, perceptive and mature. It hasn't quite the poignancy of that story of first love, but it has the same freshness of characterization and writing.

Although it is a story of three student nurses in a suburban hospital it is far removed from the stereotyped career novel…. The girls seem real, not made. So too, do the other characters—Nelle's bat-brained, charming mother; the patients, the doctors. It is this feeling for people which gives the story its vitality and richness. (p. 24)

Ellen Lewis Buell, in The New York Times Book Review (© 1951 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), April 8, 1951.

The careers, home life and romances of three girls … at nursing school are woven deftly into ["The Organdy Cupcakes"]. It is by far the best "career book" of...