Reviews were excellent, but BB
was astonished when they treated this as a funny book.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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Karl Miller
, a steady admirer of her writing, hoped Bainbridge would get the Booker Prize...
Literary responses
Christine Brooke-Rose
Thru was her own favourite among her novels, but she said it was also the one that even [her] fans get most wrong, not because of the typographical difficulty but because they ignore the explanations...
Reception
Anita Brookner
There was some astonishment in the media when this novel won the Booker Prize (although it was up against J. G. Ballard
's Empire of the Sun. The book itself significantly boosted AB
's literary...
Intertextuality and Influence
Deborah Levy
By 2018 DL
had written three books in Celia Hewitt
's garden shed, an inviolable space where nobody was allowed to disturb her.
Levy, Deborah. “’What’s the point of a risk-free life?’—Deborah Levy on starting again at 50”. theguardian.com.
During the 1960s ET
wrote for magazines like Queen and Vogue. She was founder-editor of Bananas, a journal of new writing that ran from 1975 to 1981 and attracted contributors like Angela Carter
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Texts
Jennings, Elizabeth et al. “Letters to the Editor: Future of Radio”. Times, p. 11.