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Stay Until Tomorrow
Book by Maybury, Anne
314 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1985
About the author
Anne Maybury
56 books21 followersEdith Arundel Buxton
aka Edith Arundel, Anne Maybury & Katherine Troy.
Her maiden surname was Arundel. Her ancestors were said to have come to England with the Norman Conquest and she was proud of the heritage which did seem to imbue her with a perceptive appreciation of history. The love of poetry which remained with her always was inherited from her father, a distinguished poet of his time. Her mother was a musician who died at an early age.
She was a writer of romantic suspense whose novels earned her world-wide acclaim and an enormous following. She was particularly popular in the United States. Her finest gift was for lyrical prose and she used her delight in colour and drama to such effect that the reader was immediately plunged into the story and held enthralled.
Her early novels were written also under the pennames of Edith Arundel and Katherine Troy, but it is as Anne Maybury that she will be remembered. She was a true professional who did not believe in wasting time. A promised deadline was adhered to and all social engagements regretfully cancelled. She developed early in life the profound interest in human behaviour and intrigue which was to prove a valuable asset to her writing. Also in good measure she retained the attribute so necessary to an author, a lively curiosity. She travelled widely and brought a sense of adventure into her books derived often from personal experiences of a bizarre kind. She seemed to attract excitement and used to say that she had met more than one murderer during her travels around the world. As a writer she was stylish, and this quality extended to her personality, which was full of vivid charm, lightened by a sparkling sense of fun.
Generous with her time to aspiring writers, she also loved literary chat with her peers. She was interested in new writing as well as the classics and read widely, keeping up with developments. She was a vice-president of both the Romantic Novelists Association and the Society of Women Writers and Journalists. Almost until his death she regularly attended meetings and gave time and care to helping the members and the causes in which they believe. She was a remarkable writer and a good friend and companion.
aka Edith Arundel, Anne Maybury & Katherine Troy.
Her maiden surname was Arundel. Her ancestors were said to have come to England with the Norman Conquest and she was proud of the heritage which did seem to imbue her with a perceptive appreciation of history. The love of poetry which remained with her always was inherited from her father, a distinguished poet of his time. Her mother was a musician who died at an early age.
She was a writer of romantic suspense whose novels earned her world-wide acclaim and an enormous following. She was particularly popular in the United States. Her finest gift was for lyrical prose and she used her delight in colour and drama to such effect that the reader was immediately plunged into the story and held enthralled.
Her early novels were written also under the pennames of Edith Arundel and Katherine Troy, but it is as Anne Maybury that she will be remembered. She was a true professional who did not believe in wasting time. A promised deadline was adhered to and all social engagements regretfully cancelled. She developed early in life the profound interest in human behaviour and intrigue which was to prove a valuable asset to her writing. Also in good measure she retained the attribute so necessary to an author, a lively curiosity. She travelled widely and brought a sense of adventure into her books derived often from personal experiences of a bizarre kind. She seemed to attract excitement and used to say that she had met more than one murderer during her travels around the world. As a writer she was stylish, and this quality extended to her personality, which was full of vivid charm, lightened by a sparkling sense of fun.
Generous with her time to aspiring writers, she also loved literary chat with her peers. She was interested in new writing as well as the classics and read widely, keeping up with developments. She was a vice-president of both the Romantic Novelists Association and the Society of Women Writers and Journalists. Almost until his death she regularly attended meetings and gave time and care to helping the members and the causes in which they believe. She was a remarkable writer and a good friend and companion.
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September 7, 2022
Packaged as a Gothic when it was reissued by American publishers during Anne Maybury's heyday, "Stay Until Tomorrow" is actually more of a straightforward romance with a minimum of suspense. Of European descent but raised in India, Anna comes to England as the fiancée of Martin, a recently widowed scientist whose life is unhealthily intwined with his adult sisters and cousin in the family's plant nursery business. It's no secret from almost the first page that Anna's future in-laws don't like her and wish to break up her relationship; exactly how and why waits till the end of the novel. Meanwhile, the reader suffers through a lot of period racism, cruelty and rudeness directed at Anna's supposed "Eastern" ways and differences by her future sisters-in-law, with an oblivious husband. Meanwhile, a romantic red herring keeps popping up in the form of a childhood friend. "Stay Until Tomorrow" is an unconvincing love story, but as popular fiction that tells us a lot about the reactionary fears animating Postwar Britain, it has some historical value. Luckily, Maybury would soon go on to write stronger examples of romantic suspense.
October 25, 2010
Awful. I really didn't enjoy it. Why didn't she marry the friend from her childhood who loved her and wasn't an ignorant doofus? I really don't like gothics very much: very few are keepers let alone re-reads and this was stupider than most. How could the husband to be not notice that his oldest sister was flipping nuts? That his cousin had the hots for him. And at the end, we're all supposed to believe all is well. The sections about the heroine's life in India were interesting, as were the descriptions of the English countryside but not my cuppa.
February 5, 2019
Stay until tomorrow "and your present sorrow will be weary and lie down to rest." If only Anna could stay in England and wait out the weeks before her marriage. She had traveled from Delhi to meet her fiancé's family. Expecting warm embraces she was clutched by terror instead. Eve and Sapphira were trying to drive her away and poison their brother's love. They seemed to blame Anna for the suicide of Martin's first wife, and were fearful that Anna would steal his daughter's affections. But how far would they dare go in their insinuations and evil schemes? (from the book)
September 7, 2022
An idiotic book, this doesn’t really fit the typical Gothic romance template. The viewpoint shifts periodically between several different characters and there’s not much mystery to it. The villain is exactly who the villain appears to be, and the motive is just what you would think. Also the strong anti-Indian rhetoric of some of the characters is just offputting.
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