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D.A.N. Jones, 21 March 1985
The Engineer of Human Souls
by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Paul Wilson.
Chatto, 571 pp., £9.95, February 1985,9780701129316 Show More
by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Paul Wilson.
Chatto, 571 pp., £9.95, February 1985,
The Anderson Question
by Bel Mooney.
Hamish Hamilton, 185 pp., £8.95, March 1985,9780241114568 Show More
by Bel Mooney.
Hamish Hamilton, 185 pp., £8.95, March 1985,
The Centre of the Universe is 18 Baedekerstrasse
by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.
Hamish Hamilton, 199 pp., £8.95, March 1985,0 241 11492 6 Show More
by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.
Hamish Hamilton, 199 pp., £8.95, March 1985,
“... the family, a doctor in a West Country village, commits suicide in the first chapter. The rest of Bel Mooney’s novel is devoted to a sad discussion of his motives and to the feelings of Eleanor and their son, Paul, trying to get over it. Again we are reminded of Little Eyolf, with the startling death so early in the story and the long, slow discussions ... ”