15 MARCH 1997, page 40

If We Shadows Have Offended

Anita Brookner A NICE CHANGE by Nina Bawden Virago, £15.99, pp. 192 .1•••••• I s it unfair to suggest that television has contributed to the dumbing down of contemporary......

Here's To The Widow Of Fifty

David Crane GOOD GRIEF by Keith Waterhouse Sceptre, £1699, pp. 236 J une Pepper, handsome-ish, ordinary-ish and adequately well-off, with a comfortable home and happy......