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“... To have a first novel published when you are over seventy is, I suppose, a fairly unusual thing to do. Why wait till then? The question keeps cropping up, so I have to make a serious attempt to discover the reasons. Perhaps I am a bit thick. Or is it the lack of education? (She had a governess, you know.) Perhaps I didn’t have the time. Perhaps I didn’t have the confidence ...”

“... in the British dramatic repertoire. The Governess is the most straightforward of the three. Patricia Angadi is 70 years old and presents, most convincingly, the development and decline of a Hampstead family (two parents, six children) from 1918 to 1938, under the seemingly benevolent sway of Miss Herring, the hired governess. Eleanor, a cold mother ...”