If It Hadn’t Been for Frances

by P. M. Warner

Diana was a "pill", Deb said. It was obvious to her from the first moment she set eyes on her. "A perfectly awful, repellent girl."
Deb and Frances saw "the pill" for the first time on the boat for Holland and thereafter Fate seemed determined to bring the three together: Frances, homely, warm-hearted, divided between her loyalty to her friend and kindly tolerance of the stranger; Deb, frank, penetrating, and intolerant of all affection; Diana, spoilt, rude and, under the sophistication, rather bewildered. An eternal triangle indeed!
P. M. Warner has written another readable and intensely human story about Frances and Deborah who first appeared in A Friend for Frances, satisfying our curiosity as to what happened next and leaving us in tantalising anticipation of another "Frances" book.
(Dustwrapper blurb from Seagull 1961 edition)

My edition: Seagull library 1961 with dustwrapper and colour frontispiece
Not known in a pictorial boards edition

Not known in a Children’s Press edition

Seagull Library dustwrapper 1961