Family Romances
Anthony Thwaite, 2 February 1989
A Little Stranger
by Candia McWilliam.
Bloomsbury, 135 pp., £12.95, January 1989,9780747502791 Show More
by Candia McWilliam.
Bloomsbury, 135 pp., £12.95, January 1989,
“... stylistic exercise, like that of a very clever student who had been nourished on a forced diet of John Cleveland, George Barker (The Dead Seagull) and Craig Raine, and who had once heard the plot of a novel by Iris Murdoch. The novel’s characters were indeed Romantic, if by that one means fabulous, fanciful, whimsical, high-flown, etc, as under Roget ... ”