Drawing-rooms are always tidy
Ruth BernardYeazell, 20 August 1992
The Sexual Education of Edith Wharton
by Gloria Erlich.
California, 210 pp., £13.95, May 1992,0 520 07583 8 Show More
by Gloria Erlich.
California, 210 pp., £13.95, May 1992,
“... Among the hot items at my local video store these days is a recent Hollywood thriller called The hand that rocks the cradle. A successful instance of what might be called the yuppie nightmare film, this particular contribution to the genre also manages to exploit a tear that must trouble every mother who has temporarily handed over the care of her children to another woman – not the dread that the caretaker will harm or neglect them, but the anxiety lest she win their love away ... ”