Handled with Care

Mansfield, C.K Stead’s fictional account of the life of Katherine Mansfield, received warmly in the Independent. “Any novelisation of this kind is a daunting task, with readers either knowing too much, or too little. But NZ critic and novelist Stead brings great delicacy of touch to a cast that includes John Middleton Murray, Bertrand Russell and the Bloomsbury ‘tangi.'”