Short is sharp
John Sutherland, 3 February 1983
The Pangs of Love
by Jane Gardam.
Hamish Hamilton, 156 pp., £7.50, February 1983,0 241 10942 6 Show More
by Jane Gardam.
Hamish Hamilton, 156 pp., £7.50, February 1983,
The Man Who Sold Prayers
by Margaret Creal.
Dent, 198 pp., £7.95, January 1983,9780460045926 Show More
by Margaret Creal.
Dent, 198 pp., £7.95, January 1983,
Happy as a Dead Cat
by Jill Miller.
Women’s Press, 120 pp., £2.50, January 1983,9780704338982 Show More
by Jill Miller.
Women’s Press, 120 pp., £2.50, January 1983,
“... Mary McCarthy, whose name somewhat overawes that of the author on the dust-jacket, evidently finds Margaret Creal ‘delightfully wicked’. Pleasing as her stories are, ‘wicked’ is pitching it rather high. The title story has a Canadian minister lose his faith. He descends to odd-job work, until a friend persuades him to a new vocation, writing ... ”
