5 OCTOBER 1985, page 33

So Far A Happy Ending

Francis King THESE GOLDEN DAYS by John Braine Methuen, f8.95 I t is presumptuous of a reviewer to assume that, if a novel is written in the first person, then the narrator must......

Labouring The Pointless

Kingsley Amis HUMMINGBIRDS AND HYENAS by Edward Pearce Faber, £4.95 A t first sight this is a most welcome publication. Unfortunately that first sight goes no further than Nick......