Miss Streatfeild's account of a childhood spent in an Edwardian vicarage [A Vicarage Family] has the genuine flavour of a period piece. She writes easily and pleasantly within certain definite limits; she is often very funny and sometimes really moving.

"Private Lives," in The Times Literary Supplement (© Times Newspapers Ltd. (London) 1963; reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission), No. 3220, November 14, 1963, p. 923.