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“... disordered, self and other-destructive life offers all manner of interpretations of the fiction. Nancy Schoenberger is not interested in literary criticism; Blackwood’s books are discussed entirely with reference to the life. To do this is to demean a writer, I would have thought, but perhaps Caroline Blackwood’s life-in-its-time is of more interest ...”

“... from ‘the insular world of the Protestant ascendancy in Northern Ireland’, her biographer, Nancy Schoenberger, writes, ‘the product of a long line of colonial administrators on her father’s side and the Guinnesses on her mother’s’. (Maureen Guinness was one of the ‘golden Guinness girls’, three sisters who reigned over London high ...”