Dreaming of Dead People

In the ‘middle of life’ Lavinia reviews her frustrations, her solitariness, the grief and the rapture, her seeming companions in a pageant presided over, as it were, by the masks of Owl, for winter, and Cuckoo, for erotic love. , first published in the UK in the 1970s, remains as surprising, frank, mordantly funny and raw as ever.