Margaret Moan Rowe

Graham Greene offered the same accolade as for her previous novel, recognizing its disappointing reception with: What fools the reviewers have been.A. S. Byatt admired the mocking and sinister games played by the...

More recently Margaret Moan Rowe , writing on Spark for the Dictionary of Literary Biography, was harder to please. Though she called the book a satisfying first novel, she believed that the disembodied voices...

Commentator Frank Baldanza called Robinsona sharp decline from The Comforters, and Margaret Moan Rowe agreed. On the other hand, Velma Richmond finds in it a zesty exuberance and confidence that suggest...

British Book News began to cool wirh this novel: this time her central character is scarcely a sufficiently plausible figure to dominate the story as the plot requires. But Storm Jameson found the...

Publication evoked a chorus of praise Frank Kermode , finding this a little miracle of a book, was not untypical. More recently and less sympathetically, Margaret Moan Rowe saw the social satire and spiritual...