Rosemary Dinnage, 3 November 1983
Cold Heaven by  Brian Moore.
 Cape, 271 pp., £7.95, October 1983, 0 224 02099 4Show More Time After Time by  Molly Keane.
 Deutsch, 247 pp., £7.95, September 1983, 9780233975870Show More Winter’s Tale by  Mark Helprin.
 Weidenfeld, 673 pp., £8.95, October 1983, 0 297 78329 7Show More August by  Judith Rossner.
 Cape, 376 pp., £8.50, October 1983, 0 224 02172 9Show More Kiss of Life by  Keith Colquhoun.
 Murray, 159 pp., £8.50, September 1983, 0 7195 4082 8Show More  Show More“... put down their money for the trip. There are other ways to self-realisation if we are to believe Keith Colquhoun, and – best news of all – none of us need fear we are too far over the hill to find them. At the centre of his third novel, Kiss of Life, is ex-headmistress Miss Macgregor, experiencing the death-in-life of retirement in a seaside ...”