A Mixture of Frailties

¿It¿s a muddle, thought Monica. A muddle and I can¿t get it straight. I wish I knew what I should do. I wish I even knew what I want to do¿I want to go on in the life that has somehow or other found me and claimed me. And I want so terribly to be happy. Oh god, don¿t let me slip under the surface of all the heavy-hearted dullness that seems to claim so many people.¿

A Mixture of Frailties is so much more than the story of Monica Gall¿s life in London and her education as a singer. It is an account of her education as a human being, and the result is an absorbing novel, comic in the true sense, vivid and frequently moving.