SOURCE: “Death in Dreamtime,” in New York Times Book Review, October 11, 1992, pp. 13-14.

In the following review Houston offers positive assessment of Flying to Love.

Near the end of this novel based on the murder of John F. Kennedy, D. M. Thomas has one of his characters, a psychologist, comment on the many thousands of people who are haunted by the assassination. For all of them, she writes, it “occupies a kind of dreamtime. Kennedy is dead, he is not dead. He is being taken back for burial at Arlington; he is flying on to Austin. A physicist said to me that those few seconds carried too great a burden of event, of shock, and it was as if that weight caused time to cave in, creating a vortex, a whirlwind, in which past, present and future, and reality and illusion, became confused.”

In effect, that psychologist is...