A story for our times
ROBINSON CRUSOE is a lockdown story, as are most Golden Age detective novels, set in remote country houses: Jane Eyre and Rogue Male, but Stella Gibbons, wrote the lockdown story for our age.
Born in 1902, she was the eldest of three children whose father, a London GP, drank too much and played away. Stella escaped by taking a where, in a small back room, she wrote a novel that made the office typists fall about laughing.
