Rehab won an Ivor Novello Award in 2000.
 Not everybody was supportive; Coward's sympathy was limited: "He's been fighting like a steer to keep going as before the war and hasn't done a thing for the general effort", but when Novello returned to The Dancing Years after his release, he received "a rapturous ovation" on his first entrance
 The prison term, though short, came as a severe shock to Novello, both mentally and physically, and had serious lasting effects

