11 MAY 1991, page 39

Sheltering From The Revolution

Philip Mansel JUNIPER HALL by Linda Kelly Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £18.95, pp. 137 T he French émigrés included some of the ablest men of their day. Prodigies such as Talleyrand,......

Father, Son And Family Ghosts

Frederic Raphael PATRIMONY by Philip Roth Cape, £13.99, pp.238 J ews also have fathers. Sometimes they survive the women who, according to the mythology, both sustain and......