Patricia Craig, 23 April 1987
A Darkness in the Eye by M.S. Power.
Heinemann, 212 pp., £10.95, April 1987, 0 434 59961 1Show More The Stars at Noon by Denis Johnson.
Faber, 181 pp., £9.95, March 1987, 0 571 14607 4Show More Like Birds in the Wilderness by Agnes Owens.
Fourth Estate, 138 pp., £9.95, March 1987, 0 947795 51 0Show More Fool’s Sanctuary by Jennifer Johnston.
Hamish Hamilton, 132 pp., £8.95, April 1987, 0 241 12035 7Show More A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell).
Viking, 317 pp., £10.95, March 1987, 0 670 80977 2Show More Sisters of the Road by Barbara Wilson.
Women’s Press, 202 pp., £3.95, March 1987, 0 7043 4073 9Show More The price you pay by Hannah Wakefield.
Women’s Press, 245 pp., £4.95, March 1987, 0 7043 4072 0Show More Show More“... on the loose, and Republicans in trench coats resorting to extreme expedients. Fool’s Sanctuary, Jennifer Johnston’s new novel, or novella, rehearses these familiar elements, but imposes a new, somewhat wavering outline on them, as they float into the mind of an old woman savouring for the last time the poignancy of her past. Like Minnie McMahon in ...”