"The Mermaids" 1956 BOROS, Eva Madras considered the grandest private house

considered the grandest private house in France

Showcasing the era's forward-thinking vision

When their house was narrowly missed by a stick of bombs

The drama takes place amongst the houses and parties of Mayfair and ends with one of the characters dashing off in a taxi to the new Dorchester Hotel

"The Mermaids" 1956 BOROS, Eva Madras considered the grandest private houseBOROS, Eva[216] pp. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, Inc. 19568 1 4" x 5 1 2"Jacket design by Gray Foy VG VGBoros was a Hungarian living in London who wrote in English. This was her first novel. Presumably translated from the Hungarian, this novel of a tuberculosis sanatorium is shaded by the intimations of mortality; death is a haunting presence and love a recessive, evasive illusion. Certainly for Aladar who meets Lalla Pirola only once in Budapest, returns