4 NOVEMBER 1995, page 50

A Tale Of Shameless Sensation

Juliet Townsend THE CHASE by Louisa May Alcott Century, £12.99, pp. 242 A ny reader of Little Women or Good Wives will know that Jo, the character based so closely on Louisa May......

Unhappy In Its Own Way

Kate Hubbard THE LIARS' CLUB by Mary Karr Picador, £14.99, pp. 320 T o say that The Liars' Club is a memoir of a dysfunctional Texan family is both true and also reductive. The......