Spectator, 29 November 1946, p 590. In the New Statesman, Reyner Heppenstall went further: “Mr. Green’s readers are entitled to sulk …. The hallucinations in Back depend upon two low-grade coincidences, a likeness between half-sisters and the fact that the name Rose occurs in the past tense of a common verb. Out of this confusion arises no unperplexing ecstasy …” (23 November 1946, p 386).
