Matthew Walther

Angel, by Elizabeth Taylor – review

It's time to celebrate this elegant writer of a dozen novels, among them Angel, in which she fictionalised her own fears about being a young female author

Elizabeth Taylor (left) chats with Pamela Hansford Johnson, 1954 Photo: Getty 
issue 30 November 2013

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