According to critic Peter Parker
, Winterson published the book against the advice of her friends. It received bad reviews, and she apparently tried unsuccessfully to prevent its reissue later. However, as Fiammetta Rocco
writes...
Literary responses
Brigid Brophy
BB
was awarded the London Magazine prize for prose in 1962 and the Tony Godwin Award in 1985.
Brophy, Brigid. The King of a Rainy Country. Virago.