Plots
Stephen Bann, 4 November 1982
The Prince buys the Manor
by Elspeth Huxley.
Chatto, 216 pp., £6.95, October 1982,0 7011 2651 5 Show More
by Elspeth Huxley.
Chatto, 216 pp., £6.95, October 1982,
Faultline
by Sheila Ortiz Taylor.
Women’s Press, 120 pp., £2.50, October 1982,0 7043 3900 5 Show More
by Sheila Ortiz Taylor.
Women’s Press, 120 pp., £2.50, October 1982,
Scenes from Metropolitan Life
by William Cooper.
Macmillan, 214 pp., £6.95, October 1982,0 333 34203 8 Show More
by William Cooper.
Macmillan, 214 pp., £6.95, October 1982,
Constance, or Solitary Practices
by Lawrence Durrell.
Faber, 394 pp., £7.95, October 1982,0 571 11757 0 Show More
by Lawrence Durrell.
Faber, 394 pp., £7.95, October 1982,
Beware of pity
by Stefan Zweig, translated by Phyllis Blewitt and Trevor Blewitt.
Cape, 354 pp., £7.95, October 1982,0 224 02057 9 Show More
by Stefan Zweig, translated by Phyllis Blewitt and Trevor Blewitt.
Cape, 354 pp., £7.95, October 1982,
“... You have only to glance at the icing-sugar pink dust-jacket of The Prince buys the Manor to realise that there is a factual basis for Elspeth Huxley’s ‘extravaganza’. There, nestling in the wooded Cotswolds, is the familiar facade of the rather ordinary country house which has recently been dignified by the arrival of A Royal Personage. The gossip columns of the evening papers have confirmed, as the reader suspects, that the aliases scattered throughout the novel are transparent to someone with no more than a modest knowledge of the society and geography of Tetbury ... ”
