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Book reviews: A Whistling Woman: Satirical swing through the Sixties with a modern George Eliot
From: The Scotsman
Date: 20020907
Author:ALLAN MASSIE
A Whistling Woman
by AS Byatt
Chatto & Windus, GBP 16.99
WHEN The Virgin in the Garden was published in 1978, AS Byatt described it as the first volume in a quartet of novels. Still Life followed a few years later. There was then a long gap before the appearance of Babel Tower, and only now is the quartet completed. Other novels and novellas have appeared in the interim, notably Possession, certainly her most popular book.
The 24-year gap between the publication of the first and last books in the quartet is actually longer than the period covered in the novels, from 1953 and 1970. One ...
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