The Middle Ground Arthur Ransome (Most obvious is Johnsons acknowledged

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

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

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

Pursued by anonymous executioners to the dark corners of Europe

They never discuss the changes to the house

The Middle Ground Arthur Ransome (Most obvious is Johnsons acknowledgedThe 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