Fogeyish Retreats

By
achuka
on October 31, 2004 4:57 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Young adult fiction: Oct 24

Hephzibah Anderson, in last Sunday's Observer, was less than excited by a batch of recent 'crossover' novels, saying of Charmian Hussey's The Valley Of Secrets, for example: "The prose lacks sparkle, however. There is something stubbornly one-dimensional about its simplicity, something fogeyish about its reactionary retreat into a rural idyll."

Recommended

Categories:

0 TrackBacks

Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Fogeyish Retreats.

TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.achuka.co.uk/achockablog/mt-tb.cgi/936

Leave a comment

July 2008

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
    1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31    

Categories

Monthly Archives

Powered by Movable Type 4.1

Search

About this Entry

This page contains a single entry by achuka published on October 31, 2004 4:57 PM.

Guardian Author Of The Month was the previous entry in this blog.

Fatherhood is the next entry in this blog.

Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.