The Lady Vanishes
Zoë Heller, 20 July 1995
The Last of the Duchess
by Caroline Blackwood.
Macmillan, 236 pp., £16.99, April 1995,0 333 63062 9 Show More
by Caroline Blackwood.
Macmillan, 236 pp., £16.99, April 1995,
“... Blum’s awfulness, but we get a strong sense of it, in the relish with which she recounts the old lady’s ‘terrorist threat’.) Still, there is a limit to the amusement value of even the most dramatic battiness, and the fact remains that Blum, as Blackwood’s star witness, is next to useless as a source of reliable information. Blackwood responds to this ... ”