Lucky Boy
Kevin Kopelson, 3 April 1997
Shine: The Screenplay
by Jan Sardi.
Bloomsbury, 176 pp., £7.99, January 1997,0 7475 3173 0 Show More
by Jan Sardi.
Bloomsbury, 176 pp., £7.99, January 1997,
The Book of David
by Beverley Eley.
HarperCollins, 285 pp., £8.99, March 1997,0 207 19105 0 Show More
by Beverley Eley.
HarperCollins, 285 pp., £8.99, March 1997,
Love You to Bits and Pieces: Life with David Helfgott
by Gillian Helfgott, with Alissa Tanskaya.
Penguin, 337 pp., £6.99, January 1997,0 14 026546 5 Show More
by Gillian Helfgott, with Alissa Tanskaya.
Penguin, 337 pp., £6.99, January 1997,
“... Susannah Prichard, a writer; Beryl Alcott, an organist; Sylvia, a wine bar owner; and Gillian (Lynn Redgrave), an astrologer. Cecil Parkes has just the one arm; Ray hasn’t even got a chance. Chalk it up to the compulsory heterosexuality of commercially viable cinema. (In reality, ‘Sylvia’ is a man.) All these women, most of them older, mother ... ”