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Unflinching In The Face Of Disaster

Anita Brookner MOTHERS' BOYS by Margaret Forster Chatto, £14.99, pp. 313 I n the annals of contemporary fiction Margaret Forster scores a comfortable beta plus. She deals firmly......

A Prance To The Music Of Time

Nicholas Coleridge SOME HOPE by Edward St Aubyn Heinemann, £13.99, pp. 168 he concluding volume of Edward St Aubyn's slim trilogy about rich, unhappy people is as finely written......