Family Critical Quotes- Duffy

Daily Mail: 

• 'for a woman, the decade was a pure disaster' (1950s) 

Simon Brittan: 

• 'the most irritating and potentially misleading aspect of Duffy is her insistence on writing prose as though it were poetry' 

Elizabeth O'Reilly: 

• 'often writes about love, with heartfelt feeling but never with sentimentality '
• addresses 'political, social and philosophical issues'