Elizabeth Jenkins
wrote that The White Sea Monkey was not only the most terrifying story I ever read, but the most characteristic expression of her, in its agonized compassion and its understanding of the human...
Literary responses
Theodora Benson
John Betjeman
, reviewing this book in the Daily Herald, called it a beautiful novel. . . . Full of acute feminine observation, drinks, jokes, talk in keeping with its varied characters, atmosphere and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Diana Athill
Part one is the story of the publishing houses that DA
worked with. She begins by explaining that business figures (which someone had mentioned as the key to an interesting book about publishing) would not...
