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“... out by a thunderstorm, an age of harsh social unrest saved from revolulion only by war; and Isabel Colegate chooses neither. She gives us the material out of which both are constructed and shows us something more complex and believable. The shooting-parly at Nettleby is in the grand manner of the belle époque; Sir Randolph is an old-fashioned ...”

“... of what a novelist should do is an old-fashioned one,’ says a character in the title story in Isabel Colegate’s collection A Glimpse of Sion’s Glory. ‘I think that each work should be a step forward from the last, that he should never repeat himself, that he should only produce a book when he is ready to add to his own knowledge – why write ...”