Chalk and Cheese. A Co-Educational School Novel.

Bookseller Notes

The author's first novel, and altogether scarce - outside the domestic legal deposit libraries, there is a copy at the London Library, and NYPL. Published at the age of 22, it is based on his own transition from schools in Southern Rhodesia to Austria; its juvenile origins probably explain in large part the swiftness of its disavowal by Dennis, and perhaps some hesitation at the portrayal of its Jewish antagonist in light of the developing European situation, though it is an assured enough debut - the depiction of cultural differences enacted partly through a romance 'with a girl who upholds [...] most modern opinions' (dustjacket blurb).Latterly in the collection of author James Stern, who has noted the author's identity in pencil to the title-page.