English "novelist, critic".
"Her novels are skillfully modulated variations on the theme of a girl's development toward maturity; wrote "The Needle's Eye," 1972."
The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out."
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
"When nothing is sure, everything is possible."
Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
