Great Regulars: Most strikingly, however, [John] Buchan was

happily married, from the age of thirty two, to Susan Grosvenor, with whom he had four children; Leithen, like many of his "pals", remained a bachelor. On the third page of the first novel, Leithen mentions the wife of a dodgy clubmate as the "only person (person?) to have captured my stony heart"; by The Dancing Floor, this has been purified to the claim that "I had never been in love in my life". The girls in this omnibus are of the regular Buchan type: "slender", vivacious, respectably unconventional, "like an adorable boy" or "like a wild boy".

from Mick Imlah: The Times Literary Supplement: Then and Now

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