I've just re-visited with great pleasure these three out of the intended four novels (did she ever publish the fourth?*) tracing the career of bright, spiky Frederica and her family through the 1950s and 1960s, from the new Elizabethan Renaissance to cultural chaos and the questioning of all previously held certainties. From Yorkshire to London these inter-locking stories are rich in emblematic events and characters you come to love. What a writer!
*Editor's note: A Whistling Woman is the fourth novel in the quartet.
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 35 July 2006 ) |
