15 OCTOBER 1983, page 25

A Joy To Read

Francis King Time After Time Mollie Keane (Andre Deutsch £7.95) L'our elderly siblings, April, May, June and Jasper, live lovelessly and uncomfortably in the decaying Irish man-......

Comeback

Nigella Lawson Babies in Rhinestone Shena Mackay (William Heinemann £7.95) S hena Mackay has a genius for diag- nosing the ills of modern living. Her ter- ritory is a world of......