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Elizabeth Day celebrates the centenary year of the writer Elizabeth Jane Howard

Books and Authors

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The Inner Voices of Elizabeth Jane Howard

Maria Mantell says Elizabeth Jane Howard's novels are timeless. She thinks her contemporaries like Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark were maybe a bit spiky in tone. Mantell: A great writer, capital G, has to stand a distance and almost judge their characters. And I think especially if you look at the writings of Kingsley Amos - that is biting satire.

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