To do this from the other side, to take the tools of narrative – image, dialogue, event – and make them function like music – is pretty astonishing.

This sounds wonderful and I will start looking for it at once. The only book I have ever read by Brigid Brophy is The Prince and the Wild Geese (1982), which I was given as a child because of the family connection. (And it took me years to appreciate it; for a long time I was disappointed because it was not the fairy tale it sounded like.)