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“... people involved live up to their assigned roles with the docility of a trained sit-com performer. Janice Elliott also moves within pretty narrow limits, as regards character and motive, but at least the clichés are endogenous – they belong to the sort of novel she writes. Both the setting and the moral tone of The Country of her Dreams relate to ...”

“... their own lives: she cites, for example, the stand on sexual integrity taken by Jane Eyre and Anne Elliott, as much as Doris Lessing’s Ella. She is a mettlesome commentator. Rosalind Miles’s The Female Form is a work of criticism in the same engaging mode: that is, it’s vigorously and straightforwardly written; it is sometimes funny; it makes large ...”