Volume 21, Number 8 · May 16, 1974
A Novelist Worth Knowing
By Karl Miller
Harriet Said
by Beryl Bainbridge
Braziller, 152 pp., $5.95
A Weekend with Claud
by Beryl Bainbridge
Panther Books, 206 pp., 30p (paper)
Another Part of the Wood
by Beryl Bainbridge
Hutchinson (London), 288 pp., 30s
The Dressmaker
by Beryl Bainbridge
Duckworth (London), 152 pp., £2.35
Beryl Bainbridge is possibly the least known of the contemporary English novelists who are worth knowing. She has written four very interesting novels, the fourth and last of which, The Dressmaker, also deserves to be called a triumphant success. But she has, as yet, only the beginnings of a reputation in Britain, and has next to none, so far as I can judge, in America, where the last but one, Harriet Said, appeared in the autumn of last year.
Review, 4312 words
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