25 MAY 1996, page 29

The Fatal Step

Hilary Mantel HEAT WAVE by Penelope Lively Viking, £16.99, pp. 224 W hen the heroine of Penelope Live- ly's new novel looks out of her window on to Middle England, she sees 'the......

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