The Washington Post, April 29th, 1998
GHOST CHILDREN By Sue Townsend Soho. 192 pp. $22 Sue Townsend, the British novelist, has found something of a following in the United States with her five gentle comic novels about Adrian Mole. Members of that following are advised that "Ghost Children" bears no resemblance to the Mole novels beyond the acuity of their author's prose and insights. "Ghost Children" mixes moments of lightness with large measures of darkness; it is an accomplished, interesting and touching piece of work, but it is a stark change for Townsend. It is also a stark change from what American writers expect of British...
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