Dark and Buzzing Looks
Susannah Clapp, 1 October 1987
Serenissima: A Novel of Venice
by Erica Jong.
Bantam, 225 pp., £10.95, September 1987,0 593 01365 4 Show More
by Erica Jong.
Bantam, 225 pp., £10.95, September 1987,
Her Mother’s Daughter
by Marilyn French.
Heinemann, 756 pp., £10.95, October 1987,0 434 27200 0 Show More
by Marilyn French.
Heinemann, 756 pp., £10.95, October 1987,
The Wedding of Jayanthi Mandel
by Sara Banerji.
Gollancz, 208 pp., £10.95, September 1987,0 575 03984 1 Show More
by Sara Banerji.
Gollancz, 208 pp., £10.95, September 1987,
“... A persuasive picture of a woman with a vivid personality who gets what she wants is supplied by Sara Banerji in The Wedding of Jayanthi Mandel. It is surprising that this should be so, since the woman in question is party to an arranged Hindu marriage, and could be thought to have little room for manoeuvre: her glamorous sister-in-law causes offence to ... ”