There is absolutely no possibility that it was written by E M Delafield, author of "Dairy of a Provincial Lady" and so on, all of a British, domestic drama nature. It doesn't seem like Upfield to me, but it could be Gavin Casey, died 1964, an author from Kalgoorlie who wrote fiction and non-fiction (he wrote, for instance, the motor racing novel "Checkpoint", made into a movie; many others.)
I sometimes wonder how these errors occur. 1952 was still the era of hot metal and linotype, and hand-setting pages in "formes" ...
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