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“... Barbara Pym pleases by her disengagement, by avoiding a charismatic or the enthusiastic tone. Mary Hocking is not at her best in this mode. She is better on the larger themes of dying and the remaking of relationships, but her moral points are close to the surface, as though the book was planned as a vehicle for good sense and good feeling; the ...”

“... individual way, and The Frights marks the arrival of a fertile new novelistic talent. The style of Mary Hocking’s March House is at the opposite extreme, though it’s in its way as arresting: instead of the elaboration of a world of childhood into a parable of adulthood, her first-person narration preserves the unblinking clarity and simplicity of a ...”