Patricia Craig, 23 April 1987
A Darkness in the Eye by M.S. Power.
Heinemann, 212 pp., £10.95, April 1987, 0 434 59961 1Show More The Stars at Noon by Denis Johnson.
Faber, 181 pp., £9.95, March 1987, 0 571 14607 4Show More Like Birds in the Wilderness by Agnes Owens.
Fourth Estate, 138 pp., £9.95, March 1987, 0 947795 51 0Show More Fool’s Sanctuary by Jennifer Johnston.
Hamish Hamilton, 132 pp., £8.95, April 1987, 0 241 12035 7Show More A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell).
Viking, 317 pp., £10.95, March 1987, 0 670 80977 2Show More Sisters of the Road by Barbara Wilson.
Women’s Press, 202 pp., £3.95, March 1987, 0 7043 4073 9Show More The price you pay by Hannah Wakefield.
Women’s Press, 245 pp., £4.95, March 1987, 0 7043 4072 0Show More Show More“... loose, and Republicans in trench coats resorting to extreme expedients. Fool’s Sanctuary, Jennifer Johnston’s new novel, or novella, rehearses these familiar elements, but imposes a new, somewhat wavering outline on them, as they float into the mind of an old woman savouring for the last time the poignancy of her past. Like Minnie McMahon in ...”