23 APRIL 1988, page 31

The Sport Of A Mad Mother

Philip Glazebrook THE WOMAN WHO WAS GOD by Francis King Hutchinson, £10.95, pp. 288 T here is a relief in putting yourself into the hands of so accomplished a constructor of......

A Nice, If Not A

pretty, wit David Wright DOROTHY PARKER by Marion Meade Heinemann, £12.95, pp. 480 A ll Dorothy Parker's papers vanished after her death — perhaps destroyed by a jealous......