PositiveThe Guardian (UK)In Hazzard’s precise fiction, devastation—in love and war—is the subject and the aim: and the reader is not spared ... To enter this world—\'Hazzard-land,\' as the writer Alice Jolly calls it—is to surrender to being in the company of characters who know the classics, quote poetry and move through elegant surroundings wearing nice clothes. Her writing feels more old-fashioned than the 1950s and 60s in which her stories are set—which might be why, like a frog left to simmer in a delicate consommé, we don’t see our own total annihilation coming.
