<p>'Confident and very readable . . . one of Frances Spalding's achievements in this book is to display Stevie Smith's frailties without destroying her dignity' ? Victoria Glendinning, Literary Review<br>'A careful, informative and worthwhile book' ? Hermione Lee, The Observer<br>'It is a biography of inner life. It is also a hymn to tenebrous suburbia, a book full of English oddness, and a lovely loamish read.' ? The Times<br>Stevie Smith had a ...