Rayner Heppenstall

MS became extremely close to her landlady, Tiny Lazzari , who despite her name was Irish, and who not only lodged her but delighted in feeding her and acting as a gatekeeper to keep out...

Muriel Spark , a very old friend of CBR , also worked in intelligence during the war. Brooke-Rose later helped her by looking over and correcting French translations of Spark's works. Another early friend...

PHJ 's idea for an Imaginary Conversation among characters from Proust came originally from a suggestion by Rayner Heppenstall in about 1947 for a BBC broadcast. She was delighted with the quality of the original...

This book appeared with very distinguished endorsement on its jacket. T. S. Eliot wrote that he found it a very poignant story.Storm Jameson wrote, Its simplicities are at a profound level. The theme is...

Growing Up was praised in print by Elizabeth Bowen and privately by C. P. Snow . The Times Literary Supplement found the stories distinguished for both their clarity and their good writng but marred by...

An Author's Note says that both stories and plays were written on the same creative wavelength, whether addressing the inner or outer ear. Rayner Heppenstall of the BBCThird Programme suggested that MS should...