Anita Brookner, 2 June 1983
Porky by Deborah Moggach.
Cape, 236 pp., £7.95, May 1983, 0 224 02948 7Show More The Banquet by Carolyn Slaughter.
Allen Lane, 191 pp., £6.95, May 1983, 0 7139 1574 9Show More Binstead’s Safari by Rachel Ingalls.
Faber, 221 pp., £7.95, May 1983, 9780571130160Show More In Good Faith by Edith Reveley.
Hodder, 267 pp., £7.95, May 1983, 0 340 32012 5Show More Cousins by Monica Furlong.
Weidenfeld, 172 pp., £7.95, April 1983, 0 297 78231 2Show More The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro.
Allen Lane, 233 pp., £7.95, April 1983, 0 7139 1549 8Show More On the Stroll by Alix KatesShulman.
Virago, 301 pp., £8.95, May 1983, 0 86068 364 8Show More The Color Purple by Alice Walker.
Women’s Press, 244 pp., £3.95, March 1983, 0 7043 3905 6Show More Mistral’s Daughter by Judith Krantz.
Sidgwick, 531 pp., £8.95, May 1983, 0 283 98987 4Show More Show More“... and the result, although mildly sad, is also invigorating. Where Gissing and Orwell went before, Alix KatesShulman and Alice Walker now go fearlessly and with no small degree of self-advertisement. For her novel, On the Stroll, Alix Kates...”