At 100+ pages, a Fitzgerald novel is quickly read. All the same, I found this one very satisfying. Set like The Beginning of Spring in about 1912, it shows a society on the edge of profound change, though this time it's not Russia, but England, where women's suffrage and atomic physics are about to arrive.
Once again, the handling of leading characters is unorthodox. The narrative structure was as surprising as in the film The Place Beyond the Pines. In both a violent event causes the narrative to apparently abandon the main character in favour of a newcomer, but in both a resolution of the two elements is finally achieved.