10 JANUARY 1998, page 26

Oh, Jo, Where Did You Go?

Jane Gardam BIG WOMEN by Fay Weldon Flamingo, £12.99, pp. 345 T his novel is such quintessential Weldon that you feel that you must have read it before. Let it be said that you......

Father Of A Thousand Beards

Richard West T he Argentine cult of the tragic victim may have begun in 1935 with the death in a plane crash of Carlos Gardel, the tango composer whose mournful songs spread the......