Halt During the Chase
Brilliantly funny and brutal, this is the story of one woman’s escape from the clutches of polite society, by the incredible mid-century writer who destroyed her own books.
‘No matter her insistence that she just dashed them off to make ‘a lot of red-hot money’ – Tonks''s novels are thrillingly strange things. She had the knack’ London Review of Books
Sophie’s mother knows exactly how to needle her....
Brilliantly funny and brutal, this is the story of one woman’s escape from the clutches of polite society, by the incredible mid-century writer who destroyed her own books.
‘No matter her insistence that she just dashed them off to make ‘a lot of red-hot money’ – Tonks''s novels are thrillingly strange things. She had the knack’ London Review of Books
Sophie’s mother knows exactly how to needle her....
