Marigold Johnson

She was, she said later, an idle and pleasure-bent student. She made at least two lifelong friends, Marigold Johnson and V. S. Naipaul .

The question that first grabbed the attention of reviewers was that of whether JOF could equal her famous father, or whether it was just his name that had made her noticed. Sally Beauman , reviewing...

CS now received her first enthusiastic review from the Times Literary Supplement—and the first to be written by a woman, Marigold Johnson . Johnson mentioned that [d]istinguished American writers had been extravagant in their...

Marigold Johnson in the Times Literary Supplement sounded sceptical about the somewhat simplistic fusion of Christian faith and Orphic liberation in the body of the book, as well as about the claim to special glimpses...

Marigold Johnson in the Times Literary Supplement described this book as an expression of sympathy for the dispossessed white minority in Kenya, and found its most interesting aspect the sense of alienation from England...

The book's production and the long quote as blurb suggested (wrote Marigold Johnson ) that MF 's success in other genres had given her publishers great confidence in her powers as a novelist.