Chiara Ridolfi
C.K. Stead, 9 October 1986
The Dresden Gate
by Michael Schmidt.
Hutchinson, 152 pp., £9.95, September 1986,0 09 165510 2 Show More
by Michael Schmidt.
Hutchinson, 152 pp., £9.95, September 1986,
First Fictions: Introduction 9
by Deborah Moffat, Kristien Hemmerechts, Douglas Glover, Dorothy Nimmo and Jaci Stephen.
Faber, 255 pp., £3.95, August 1986,0 571 13607 9 Show More
by Deborah Moffat, Kristien Hemmerechts, Douglas Glover, Dorothy Nimmo and Jaci Stephen.
Faber, 255 pp., £3.95, August 1986,
“... Penelope Fitzgerald’s Innocence is set in Florence, the principal characters are Italian, and I kept asking myself: how is it done? She knows quite a lot about Italian society: but more important, she has somehow got inside her Italian characters, so that when a young Englishwoman appears on the scene she really seems a foreigner and not, as one might expect, the focus of the novel’s consciousness ... ”
