15 JUNE 1985, page 25

Frostbite With Mother

Isabel Colegate NOW TO MY MOTHER: A VERY PERSONAL MEMOIR OF ANTONIA WHITE by Susan Chitty Weidenfeld de Nicolson, £10.95 I A severely neurotic person is torture to live with,......

Yesterday's Men Revisited

Andrew Gimson THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT, 1974-79: POLITICAL AIMS AND ECONOMIC REALITY by Martin Holmes Macmillan, £25 THATCHER: THE FIRST TERM by Patrick Cosgrove Bodley Head, £9.95......

On The Trail Of Vivian Winter

Harriet Waugh BLOOD FOR BLOOD by Julian Gloag Hamish Hamilton, £9.95 ARTIST UNKNOWN by Robert Rubens Bachman & Turner, £7.50 B lood for Blood is a strongly sustained......