20 APRIL 1996, page 42

Despising The Sham

Carole Angier LOVE, AGAIN by Doris Lessing Flamingo, £15.99, pp. 339 D oris Lessing was once an inspiration to a generation. But this is a dreadful, utterly wrong-headed book.......

A Love Story With Compound Interest

Amit Chaudhuri DANGEROUS by Ben Okri Phoenix, £15.99, pp. 325 O movo, the protagonist of this intelli- gent and moving novel, is a painter. He lives in a lower-middle-class......