
Cock Robin
(1973) Heineman
‘Witty, cheerful, inventive and refreshingly shrewd.’
The Sunday Times
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My early books were written just as often from a man’s point of view or with a man as a central character as a woman ie A Painted Devil, Cock Robin and The Big Dipper. I never felt nervous about understanding a man’s approach to life – maybe because I grew up with four brothers. The eponymous Robin is a not very attractive character round which circle three women – so it is a women’s book too. At the time I was struck by how many apparently powerful women still paid deference to the man in their lives or the man they’d like to be in their lives. I guess that attitude’s long gone. Or possibly not?