Gabriele Annan

A chorus of praise greeted this book. The chapter on Jean Rhys was hailed as a miniature masterpiece.Jules Verdone in the Boston Globe suggested that that DA had the knack of presenting as history...

The same reviewer, Gabriele Annan in The Listener, credited CB with power, imagination, wit, and above all precision. The London Magazine noted the book's seamless transition from fiction to reportage.Robert Fisk

This novel received mixed reviews. Richard Bernstein wrote in the New York Times of AD 's intelligence and power, calling her a writer with a remarkable eye for substance. He found in this novel the...

At her selective convent school school Carmel McBain is thrown closely together with Karina (child of East European immigrant parents), because they are the only two children at the school from poor homes beyond its...

Critics concurred that the collection deserved celebration, and that STW was a wise as well as an able writer. Times Literary Supplement reviewer Gabriele Annan found the book an attack on accepted thinking, and was...