11 MAY 1991, page 38

The Battle Of All Mothers

Anita Brookner THE BATTLE FOR CHRISTABEL by Margaret Forster Chatto & Windus, f13.99, pp. 266 T he tone of Margaret Forster's last novel, Have the Men Had Enough?, was jus-......

Destroyers Off Oman

More mongrel than whippet, their raked line Top-heavied by equipment, they slide off Our TV screens into silver horizons we have To imagine. Though siblings, they confine......