Give Love the Air

by Faith Baldwin

Book by Baldwin, Faith

Genres: Fiction

327 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1947

About the author

Faith Baldwin attended private academies and finishing schools, and in 1914-16 she lived in Dresden, Germany. She married Hugh H. Cuthrell in 1920, and the next year she published her first novel, Mavis of Green Hill. Although she often claimed she did not care for authorship, her steady stream of books belies that claim; over the next 56 years she published more than 85 books, more than 60 of them novels with such titles as Those Difficult Years (1925), The Office Wife (1930), Babs and Mary Lou (1931), District Nurse (1932), Manhattan Nights (1937), and He Married a Doctor (1944). Her last completed novel, Adam's Eden, appeared in 1977.

Typically, a Faith Baldwin book presents a highly simplified version of life among the wealthy. No matter what the difficulties, honour and goodness triumph, and hero and heroine are united. Evil, depravity, poverty, and sex found no place in her work, which she explicitly intended for the housewife and the working girl. The popularity of her writing was enormous. In 1936, in the midst of the Great Depression, she published five novels in magazine serial form and three earlier serials in volume form and saw four of her works made into motion pictures, for an income that year in excess of $315,000. She also wrote innumerable stories, articles, and newspaper columns, no less ephemeral than the novels.

Reviews

[Liz · Rating 3 out of 5]

I first found this treasure in a box from my mother's old schoolbooks. Dated from the library from 1956-1983, it was slightly beaten up and smelled delightful! ( I love the smell of old books, but who doesn't!?) I immediately had to start reading it.
Loves story, it that what it is? It first started out as a "" I used to love you, but now I can't stand you"" story. Which, I adored. The misunderstandings, deceit, hate, love and lost all contribute to such a lovely little book.
Unfortunately for me, as it was a very old copy I found that it had one missing page ( 65-66) and was quite heartbroken to find there was no copy of it online for me to read ( the missing page) I hope to find someone to give me the missing page to copy myself and hopefully add it to my mother's collection.

[Sharon Buxton · Rating 2 out of 5]

C-. fictioin, cozy fiction, dated; "ideal" couple decide to divorce; from stash, discard