Outbreak of Love

A novel by Martin Boyd, was published in 1957. The third in a tetralogy dealing with the Langton family, the narrative is mainly concerned with Diana von Flugel, aunt to Guy Langton, the novel's occasional narrator, and daughter to Alice of The Cardboard Crown (1952). Diana's 23-year marriage to a feckless musical genius, Wolfgang ('Wolfie') von Flugel, is at a point of crisis, first because she has discovered that her husband has a vulgar mistress, and second because she is attracted to Russell Lockwood, an agreeable, cultivated dilettante. Diana's plans to leave for Europe with Russell are frustrated by Wolfie's continuing dependence on her, by her unwillingness to embarrass her recently married daughter, Josie, and by the declaration of war in 1914.

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