Savkar Altinel
in the Times Literary Supplement was highly critical of this novel,
Altinel, Savkar. “Man Trouble”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4237, p. 676.
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but the following year Patricia Craig
, in the same journal, was more appreciative, crediting ZF
with a sure touch with...
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Jane Gardam
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.
but later, judging a bunch of books for the under-eights, she felt that...
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Jennifer Johnston
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.
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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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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Christina Stead
The title story was a contender for the Miles Franklin
prize in the year that the volume was published.
