Pseud’s Corner
John Sutherland, 17 July 1980
The Middle Ground
by Margaret Drabble.
Weidenfeld, 248 pp., £5.95, June 1980,0 297 77808 0 Show More
by Margaret Drabble.
Weidenfeld, 248 pp., £5.95, June 1980,
The Boy Who Followed Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith.
Heinemann, 292 pp., £6.50, April 1980,0 434 33520 7 Show More
by Patricia Highsmith.
Heinemann, 292 pp., £6.50, April 1980,
“... or shame, for instance, that made Eric Blair rechristen himself at the start of his career? As Christopher Hollis tells us: ‘The reasons he gave for changing his name are oddly unconvincing. He complained that Blair was a Scots name and that he disliked Scotland because of its association with the deer forests about which his rich schoolfellows used to ... ”