In Out of the Window, the stark contrast between Ursula's large, pale, comfortable home in a Cheshire village and 53 Shakespeare Street in a Manchester terrace, where Mrs Gandy and her son Kenneth live, is vividly drawn by Madeline Linford. Readers know exactly where they are with details such as the "two saffron yellow steps", the lino in the hall, the centre table in the parlour with "a paperweight of mottled granite, an India rubber plant and an album of Southport views’, and the parlour window itself "modestly veiled in Nottingham lace...parted and looped to display an aspidistra in a painted china pot". (This is The Aspidistra (c1912, Bristol) by Jean Marchand).