Lead Review

• Book: By Battersea Bridge
• Location: Bulgaria, Hampshire, London
• Author: Janet Davey

Anita is an immediately recognisable psychological type, the product of a pressurised upbringing. She operates in terms of “self-sabotage” and talks in exactly that kind of psychobabble, to the irritation of her overbearing and intellectual mother, Veronica. (The Guardian)
Davey can conjure up location like a dream – just think of the description of the boiling turkey stock in Mossy’s parents’ home in Hampshire – Healey SK –

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