Revised by the author, [A Love, on a Season is a novel first published in 1954 under the title Two by Two…. This is an] honest and a tender story, perceptive in analysis of human relationships and candid in approach to the problem of sex. Although the tension (and misunderstanding) between a father and son is particularly well-described, it does not overshadow the crucial problem of the book: what do two young people in love do to restrain the feelings they cannot deny? (pp. 63-4)

Zena Sutherland, in Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (copyright 1964 by the University of Chicago; all rights reserved), December, 1964.