FLY AWAY HOME

by Gillian Tindall ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 25, 1971

Tonia is another one of Gillian Tindall's undeluded young women, a little like Margaret Drabble's -- noticing, exacting, and overly inclined to think rather than feel. In this autoanalytic journal she marks time and looks back at the expense of her life in Paris and marriage to a Frenchman, Marc -- remembering with more romanticism than she should a shortlived love affair in Israel, comparison shopping and faultfinding everywhere. But certain unexpected jolts (her oldest friend in England loses a child while she takes her own two rather for granted; the death of her mother whom she had never accepted on any terms) put an end to her indulgent but pragmatic self-examination. The present revises the past at every turn and life becomes, as it does, a continuity of cognate experiences which are necessarily interdependent. The only limitations are Tonia's -- her native standoffishness -- but on the other hand you have the fact that Miss Tindall is a most attractive and intelligent writer and she sharpens and extends the experience throughout.

Pub Date: Oct. 25, 1971

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Walker

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1971

Categories: FICTION