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Trying Too Hard

D. J. Taylor THE WHITE FAMILY by Maggie Gee Saqi Books, 111.95, pp. 416, ISBN 0863563805 M ysteriously — for these things are rarely foreseeable — the figurative strain that......

Understanding The Half Understood

Teresa Waugh SUBMERGED by A. L. Barker Virago, £16.99, pp.239, ISBN 1860499279 W hat can there be left to say about a collection of short stories such as A. L. Barker's......