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From: book reviews Category: Books Date: 17 November 2007 Time: 04:16 PM Review: It's funny reading this not that great 70s fiction, this is the first novel by someone who got very promising reviews and was a best-seller. In retrospect you can see that she's not gonna become a great writer. The dual narrative is bad, as usual with two streams one is stronger and more readable, the best parts are the bits set at Worthley, a very obvious recreation of her time at Wellesley, where she manages to achieve comedy and satire. The rest seems too much to stretch autobiographical material into farce and tragedy, and somehow it is all too over the top. The promise of the 70s, sigh.