Getting on
Humphrey Carpenter, 18 July 1985
A Glimpse of Sion’s Glory
by Isabel Colegate.
Hamish Hamilton, 153 pp., £8.95, June 1985,0 241 11532 9 Show More
by Isabel Colegate.
Hamish Hamilton, 153 pp., £8.95, June 1985,
“... hoarding books rather than cash, and the novel’s excellent jacket-picture by Emma Chichester Clark has a promising glimpse of him peering at a tome, surrounded by towers of unsorted volumes which wait their places on the empty shelves in the gloom beyond. Unfortunately Lamming’s prose never quite measures up to that picture: the book-hoarding ought to ... ”