Anthony Blond

Anthony Blond judged that despite its potentially off-putting subject, the wit was so real and the content although so feminine, so persuasive that no publisher with literary pretensions could fail to accept this book.

The Times Literary Supplement review praised the book for questioning the validity of forcing the abnormal person into the deadening cage of so-called sensible, sane behaviour.The same reviewer criticised this novel's secondary characters...

JD 's publisher, Anthony Blond , felt that the novel's subject, mental alienation, might not be attractive to readers, but his secretary (the firm's only employee at the time) said she would leave unless he...