Virago Modern Classics have brought back many good women writers into currency, but there can hardly be anybody left of the calibre of Willa Cather or Edith Wharton to be rediscovered. Rose Macaulay is now remembered almost solely for The Towers of Trebizond, which borders on the Evelyn Waugh country but is gentler; her other novels seem very much books of their time and taste. Crewe Train belongs to much the same territory as those of Elizabeth Bowen and Rosamond Lehmann, though with a certain dry astringency which is Macaulay's own. It is in the more emotional passages of the novel that her limitations show up.