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“... Volumes of short stories do not get into the bestseller lists, but Georgina Hammick’s first collection. People for Lunch (1987), did so at once. It can hardly have been the subject-matter: the stories are not especially violent or sexually inventive, nor do they offer revisionary analyses of late 20th-century culture ...”

“... a stage in its hero’s development. Don’t be fooled by the broken plate on its front cover: Georgina Hammick’s collection of short stories, People for Lunch, is a very polished and correct affair, in which the writing’s impeccable good manners allow absolutely nothing to go wrong. Fair enough, perhaps, considering how often and how badly things ...”

“... Back to the 20th century and middle-aged, middle-class anxieties with the nine stories in Georgina Hammick’s Spoilt. Angus Wilson’s name has been mentioned in comparison, but these pieces have none of the acidity and satiric hardness of Wilson’s early short stories. Their sheen, style and deliberate under-statement are much nearer the New ...”

“... in the sense of not being ordinary. They were almost always women. ‘My ears pricked up when Georgina Hammick told me she had had an excellent English teacher at Beaufront called Mr Butts,’ Maxtone Graham notes. ‘It turned out it was not Mr Butts but Miss De Butts.’ Hatherop Castle was headed by a Mrs Fyfe:‘Was there a Mr Fyfe?’‘Yes ...”