18 JANUARY 1997, page 35

This Small Masterpiece

Teresa Waugh ORIGINAL BLISS by A. L. Kennedy Cape, £14.99, pp. 311 P erhaps it has something to do with the time of year, with the crippling cold and all those horrible germs......

The Last Time I Saw Paris . . .

Main de Botton LE DIVORCE by Diane Johnson Chatto, £14.99, pp. 308 A s the interior decorators of the Dome and Café Rouge restaurants have discovered, it isn't hard to evoke a......