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The Fox In the CupboardWhen London-based single mother Jane Shilling finds herself with a couple of weeks unexpectedly free and no chance of going away, she decides to...Read More
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Telegraph, May 14, 2012
...Philip Gould's account of the months before his death, When I Die, is moving, says Jane Shilling. In January 2008 the political strategist Philip Gould was diagnosed with gastro-oesophageal cancer and given a 50/50 chance of recovery. I made an immediate...
New Statesman, March 8, 2012
...beauty and a complicated truth in Cusk's narrative. The censorious will enjoy it, too, for different reasons. Jane Shilling's "The Stranger in the Mirror: a Memoir of Middle Age" is published in paperback by Vintage (£8.99...
Gransnet, March 1, 2012
...is Joanna Trollope's latest novel, Daughters-in-Law, described as "wonderfully observed" by The Times and "infallibly elegant" by Jane Shilling in The Daily Telegraph. Rachel has always loved being at the centre of her large family. She has fiercely...
New Statesman, March 1, 2012
...caused a stir with its exposition of personal pain. In the Critics section, the book is reviewed by Jane Shilling. We pose the question: is it ever okay to write about your divorce? Meanwhile, Rob Brown discusses Scotland's Irish question. During the...
New Statesman, February 29, 2012
...yearn to hear has yet to be delivered. Also in the 5 March issue of the New Statesman: Jane Shilling and Jonathan Derbyshire on Rachel Cusk; Norman Lamont on Trita Parsi's book about Obama's Iran policy; Kate Mossman on Madonna; and Will Self's Real Meals...
Guardian.co.uk, February 24, 2012
...James, Yeats to Beckett, as "a book that illuminates, startles and delights"; and that view was echoed by Jane Shilling in the Daily Telegraph , who found it "a penetrating and often very funny inquiry into the fraught complicity between parent and...
Telegraph, February 21, 2012
...Susannah Clapp's 'A Card from Angela Carter' offers the concentrated essence of a maverick novelist, says Jane Shilling The novelist Angela Carter died 20 years ago this month, at the age of 51. Maverick and original, she was successful and admired but...
Gransnet, March 1, 2012
...is Joanna Trollope's latest novel, Daughters-in-Law, described as "wonderfully observed" by The Times and "infallibly elegant" by Jane Shilling in The Daily Telegraph. Rachel has always loved being at the centre of her large family. She has fiercely...
New Statesman, March 1, 2012
...within the protection of a literary form. There is something rather impressive about Cusk's commitment to what Jane Shilling calls, in her review of Aftermath (which also appears in this issue), the "difficult discipline of self-scrutiny"...
New Statesman, March 1, 2012
...caused a stir with its exposition of personal pain. In the Critics section, the book is reviewed by Jane Shilling. We pose the question: is it ever okay to write about your divorce? Meanwhile, Rob Brown discusses Scotland's Irish question. During the...
New Statesman, February 29, 2012
...yearn to hear has yet to be delivered. Also in the 5 March issue of the New Statesman: Jane Shilling and Jonathan Derbyshire on Rachel Cusk; Norman Lamont on Trita Parsi's book about Obama's Iran policy; Kate Mossman on Madonna; and Will Self's Real Meals...
Guardian.co.uk, February 24, 2012
...James, Yeats to Beckett, as "a book that illuminates, startles and delights"; and that view was echoed by Jane Shilling in the Daily Telegraph , who found it "a penetrating and often very funny inquiry into the fraught complicity between parent and...
Telegraph, February 21, 2012
...Susannah Clapp's 'A Card from Angela Carter' offers the concentrated essence of a maverick novelist, says Jane Shilling The novelist Angela Carter died 20 years ago this month, at the age of 51. Maverick and original, she was successful and admired but...
Gransnet, February 21, 2012
...is Joanna Trollope's latest novel, Daughters-in-Law, described as "wonderfully observed" by The Times and "infallibly elegant" by Jane Shilling in The Daily Telegraph. Rachel has always loved being at the centre of her large family. She has fiercely...
