Middle Mist

by Netta Muskett

Sabine looked to have a brilliant career as an eye surgeon, but then family debts put paid to all of her hopes and ambitions. She has a lover, younger than herself, but has become completely disillusioned with him and so in some desperation takes an office job working for Sir Jervis Guyes with a view to putting everything behind her. However, not everything is as it seems, and she soon discovers her new life becomes complicated when she discovers things about her employer beyond those normally open to an employee.

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1937

About the author

Netta Rachel Hill was born on 1887 in Sevenoaks, Kent, England, UK. She was educated at Kent College, Folkstone, before became teacher of Mathematics. During the World War I, she joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment, and drove an ambulance in France. In 1916, her brother, member of the Imperial Camel Corp, was killed in Egypt. After war, she worked as secretary by Lord George Riddell, 1st Baron Riddell, owerd and Managing Director of the News of the World. In 1925, she married the widower Henry Wallace Muskett (1886-1953), who has three children for his firt marriage, and they had a son, Peter Muskett, who married Judith, and had two children: Sarah-Jane and Jamie. During the World War II, she again served with the V.A.D where she taught handicrafts in British and American hospitals.

She started publishing on 1927, and she continued writing until the day of her death, and her last novel, Cloudbreak, was published posthumously on 1964. Her novels are translated to several languages, including: Spanish, French, Portuguese, Finnish, Swedish and Danish. Netta Muskett was vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association's, that created in her honour the Netta Muskett Award for new writers. She died on 29 May 1963 in Putney. In 2013, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her death, her family started to published her novels as ebook through Amazon Kindle.

Reviews

[MsEleanorMae · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was surprisingly good. It is dated and interesting for that reason. Being written back 1937 and Muskett being born in 1887 it would be dated. The theme of the lowly and underestimated position of women in society through out this book places the reader solidly in that time. I would imagine Muskett was relatively forward thinking and her books probably exposed many readers in the 30's-60's to imagining women as they have become (or some percentage have become) today. I will read more of Ms Muskett.

The narrator did a great job too.

[Gloria Turner]

Have not read Netta Muskett since my early 20s, at the time I thought the romance was wonderful. Have since upped my reading to the likes of Julian Barnes and Anita Brookner. But Netta was good in her time.

[Sonia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazingly good! ! Started so boring but became exciting! !