The Middle Ground Arthur Ransome The Loop is destined to

The Loop is destined to capture the hearts and imaginations of readers everywhere

Anita Desai's stories are peopled with intensely individual characters - the man spiritually transformed by the surface texture of a melon

Banks has to deal with his attraction to a young psychologist Jenny Fuller

(Most obvious is Johnsons acknowledged debt to an eighteenth-century predecessor

have promised to help

The Middle Ground Arthur Ransome The Loop is destined toThe Middle Ground is very much a novel of today. It is a celebration of the pleasures and dangers of London life in all its variety, seen through the eyes of a group of friends Kate Armstrong, journalist, Evelyn Stennett, social worker, Ted Stennett, a doctor of sorts (and ex lover of Kate) and Hugo Mainwaring, journalist, anthropologist and wounded adventurer. They are all in their forties 'the middle years, caught between children and parents, free