Reviewing the collection, Patricia Craig
felt that it did not show Stead at her best, but...
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Ruth Rendell
Craig
missed the customary more intricate plot, yet maintained that Rendell had lost nothing of her flair for suspenseful story-telling.
Craig, Patricia. “Criminal proceedings”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4577, p. 1382.
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Ruth Rendell
Patricia Craig
, reviewing for the Times Literary Supplement, judged that this novel was beautifully composed (like two of its Barbara Vine predecessors but unlike House of Stairs, which she thought disfigured by...
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Julia O'Faolain
This novel was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Hermione Lee
praised it in the Observer for presenting the inter-relationship between family and national history, while Robert Nye
in the Guardian called it one of the...
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Julia O'Faolain
In the Times Literary Supplement, Patricia Craig
voiced the opinion that feminists might be disappointed with this exceptionally polished work, since the values which the heroine lives by are no part of a feminist...
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Gwen Moffat
Patricia Craig
wrote in the TLS that in RageGM
had neatly effected a fusion of two genres, the western and the detective.
Patricia Craig
in the New Statesman identified the novel's theme as illusions produced by men in the interests of power and praised its telling as by turns inspiriting, illuminating and attractively strange.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Patricia Craig
in the Times Literary Supplement discerned a splendid original recklessness in JG
's handling (fiercer and wittier than other examples) of her ugly-duckling theme.