24 MARCH 1984, page 28

Singular Ladies

Lewis Jones The Collected Works of Jane Bowles (Peter Owen £10.50) Gertrude:They say red-haired women go wild a lot but I never picture it that way. Do you? Molly: I don't guess......

The Snail's Antennae

Harriet Waugh The Daysman Stanley Middleton (Hutchinson £7.95) S tanley Middleton's immersion in the L./unexceptional humdrum lives of or- dinary middle-class English folk is......