15 MARCH 1975, page 20

Fiction

Foolish tears Peter Ackroyd The Hour Before Twilight Richard Austin (Secker and Warburg £2.50) Heaven on Earth Janice Elliott (Hodder and Stoughton £2.95) Sinning with Annie......

Talking Of Books

Secret Ray Benny Green • In 1942, at a farcically anarchic institution called the North London Emergency Secondary School, the members of the fourth form sat at lift-top desks......