18 APRIL 1992, page 33

Looking Back On Lucky Jim

David Lodge The following is a shortened version of an introduction to a new edition of Lucky Jim which Penguin are publishing this week in their 'Twentieth Century Classics'......

I Help The Midwife Make The Bed, A Sheet Of

plastic first, to keep the mattress clean, And then the draw-sheet, folded twice. I void The thought of beds they dig by spade and fix My mind on how to count the gaps between......