The Spectator, October 30th, 2004
The lady's not for exhuming OLIVIA MANNING by Neville and June Braybrooke Chatto, £20, pp. 301, ISBN 0701177497 * £18 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 It's curious to reflect that in reviewing Olivia Manning's biography alone and prominently one is paying her more attention than any of her novels had in her lifetime. They were invariably reviewed as one of a group, rather than stand-alone, and for the general reader she fell into the category of novelists whose name is somehow familiar but whose novels are not familiar at all. After her death, an excellent television adaptation of her Ba...
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