21 JUNE 1997, page 31

You Can't Go Home Again, And Stay

Isabel Quigley PROUD GARMENTS by Barbara Anderson Cape, £14.99, pp. 224 T he guest who won't shut up. The guest who takes over, won't leave, has too strong a presence, fills the......

Port After Stormy Seas, Ease After War

Allan Mallinson A WORLD OVERTURNED: A BURMESE CHILDHOOD, 1933-47 by Maureen Baird-Murray Constable, £15, pp. 224 T his compelling story begins, like Carmen, in a cigarette......