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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20010509
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IN A gloriously over the top review in The Times today Fay Weldon compares fellow novelist Sally Emerson with Graham Greene, James Lee Burke, Erskine Childers and Wilkie Collins.

"It has echoes of early Murdoch, at her most crystalline," purrs Weldon about Emerson's latest novel Broken Bodies, brandishing words such as brilliant and excellent, "or Durrell without the coarseness".

So who is Sally Emerson?

She is the wife of Peter Stothard, editor of The Times. Surely this is a detail Weldon should not have spared us.

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