Forbidden to Grow up
Gabriele Annan: Ahdaf Soueif, 15 July 1999
“... romance. Anna’s anti-imperialism has to be gently expressed, but her first father-in-law, Sir Charles Winterbourne, has no inhibitions. She recounts his ‘tirade against the Empire – or rather, the spirit of Empire, for he is angered equally by the doings of Kitchener in South Africa, the King of the Belgians in the ... ”