In And Another Thing: Memories of Family Life with a Psychiatrist , Elizabeth Fenwick, wife and co-author of neuropsychologist Peter Fenwick, presents a collection of reflections on family life in London in the twentieth century. Originally written as a series of essays for "World Medicine", a leisure magazine for doctors which, under its editor Michael O'Donnell, "World Medicine" established itself as the most entertaining - and in terms of medical politics - the most irreverent and radical medical magazine of the 1970s. br Elizabeth suggests it's a memoire, "a sort of potted autobiography without the boring bits". And boring it is not. It is both witty and p ..

THE MAKE-BELIEVE MAN br Norma Hovic is recently widowed and living with her 11-year-old son in her mother's house. When her mother leaves to stay with Norma's sister, who is expecting, Norma is at first pleased to have the house to herself. But then Cliff appears. Cliff had been her mother's roomer until Norma came to live with her. She had heard all about Cliff. But the Cliff who shows up at her doorstep is another matter altogether. There is something not quite right here. This Cliff makes her nervous. His face is wounded and he keeps babbling about a man he had worked for who had humiliated him. He almost seems to resent Norma's presence here. And that's wh ..

"I wonder if you could come in for a moment?" says Mrs Kay to Violet Besserman. Violet comes in, but she is not prepared for what she will find when the doors of the decaying house close behind her. ..