Anne Duchêne

This novel won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year award. Anne Duchene in the Times Literary Supplement suspected it of some odd and regrettable compulsions towards up-to-dateness. The film made from it did better...

A sentence from Anne Duchêne , reviewing this book for the Times Literary Supplement, reads like a summary of responses to PF : Her writing, as ever, has a natural authority, is very funny...

In the Times Literary SupplementAnn Duchene greeted this book with enthusiasm. Most of the time, she wrote, the story moves seamlessly, governed by a vivid, confident pen and by a generous intelligence. The book...

Opinions used to advertise this volume included one from Elaine Feinstein , who called JGa spare and elegant master of her art.Anne Duchêne , however, provided an unusually unenthusiastic...

Anne Duchêne in the Times Literary Supplement described the book as mildly amazing, today, in being a high sexual fantasy, postulating female submission to men. Though ultimately trivial, it is spirited, if silly, stuff...

Anne Duchêne , too, expressed admiration for this weirdly laborious, gothic story, calling it a sombre panel, a long and painful expressionist essay, with really only three—or two and a half—characters. She reserved her highest...

Thirty years after publication, Anne Duchêne , also in the Times Literary Supplement, recorded her delight in this iridescent comedy. Stead, she suggested, was a kind of dark star among modern novelists—not visible...

Anne Duchêne called this book, on its appearance as a Virago Modern Classic in 1981, dark, demonic, almost unrelievedly ugly, a rancid and claustrophobic criticising of capitalism, and of what it does to human emotions...

Initial New York reviewers were unenthusiastic, calling this book thin-blooded or disappointing. On its Virago re-appearance in 1981, the word was radiant. Anne Duchêne placed it at the opposite pole from Stead's recent...