“... characters – near enough to tell us what we need to know about Antonia or Jim or the professor, Godfrey St Peter, but not so near as to infringe on their privacy or essential dignity. She observes her characters respectfully, as if across the width of a farmhouse supper table, or from a distance equivalent to that between one furrow and the next in a neatly ...”

“... in his own day could be accounted Powell’s leading champion. In a front-page spread in the TLS, John Bayley hailed him under the banner of ‘A Family and Its Fictions’. There was a conflict in Powell, he explained, between the Gothic and Gallic sides of his imagination, which lent much of the richness to his work – provided the former, with its better ...”

“... home. And the guy at the desk said, not with these charges you aren’t.’In June 1989, Judge John Miller presided over a ‘waiver’ hearing to decide whether, given the seriousness of the charges, Gordon’s case should be transferred (‘waived’) from the juvenile court to an adult court. A psychologist who interviewed Gordon recommended a ...”