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“... of the novel show him learning his trade and making his apprentice’s mistakes in the steelworks. Daisy Waugh focuses perhaps rather too deliberately on the problem of teenage anorexia. But this is a novel of lively characterisation with a brisk narrative pace and a streak of cruelly witty observation. Mary Jane, of course, was the girl who refused to ...”

“... for parents’. This has lost none of its pertinence today. ‘What we have, for the most part,’ Daisy Waugh writes in I Don’t Know Why She Bothers: Guilt-Free Motherhood for Thoroughly Modern Women, ‘is a repressive sentimentality, a smiling acceptance of female martyrdom, which teeters, at times, beyond martyrdom into a sort of ...”

“... with this process: the stubby, solid figure, with its big head and staring eyes, as though Evelyn Waugh had been reincarnated as a Roundhead; the dark three-piece suit, an interposing formality signalling that ceremony is a proper thing to stand on; the shadowed, book-lined interiors in which he sits, robed and ready to pass judgment. It is all too easy to ...”