Belfast Book
Patricia Craig, 5 June 1986
Lonely the man without heroes
by M.S. Power.
Heinemann, 222 pp., £9.95, April 1986,0 434 59960 3 Show More
by M.S. Power.
Heinemann, 222 pp., £9.95, April 1986,
Breaking the rules
by Caroline Lassalle.
Hamish Hamilton, 280 pp., £9.95, May 1986,0 241 11837 9 Show More
by Caroline Lassalle.
Hamish Hamilton, 280 pp., £9.95, May 1986,
The Bay of Silence
by Lisa St Aubin de Teran.
Cape, 163 pp., £8.95, May 1986,0 224 02345 4 Show More
by Lisa St Aubin de Teran.
Cape, 163 pp., £8.95, May 1986,
“... stretched above the haze of smoke. Rows of red-brick houses radiated on all sides and above them rose blocks of factories with many of their windows catching the light.’ There’s a piece of scene-painting for the nostalgic to latch onto. A novel like McLaverty’s Call my brother back (1939) offers a view of Belfast as unpretentious as a game of hopscotch ... ”