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Pitiless

Harriet Waugh Good Night Sweet Ladies Caroline Blackwood (Heinemann £7.95) C aroline Blackwood's new book of short stories sardonically entitled Good Night Sweet Ladies forces......

A Joy To Read

Francis King Time After Time Mollie Keane (Andre Deutsch £7.95) L'our elderly siblings, April, May, June and Jasper, live lovelessly and uncomfortably in the decaying Irish man-......