SOURCE: “A Writer's Revenge,” in Times Literary Supplement, November 19, 1999, p. 24.

In the following review, Imlah offers a positive assessment of Lodge's prose adaptation of his play Home Truths.

Home Truths is David Lodge’s adaptation into prose fiction of his play of the same title, which was first staged in February 1998; and it hardly conceals its origins, with its single interior setting, and a narrative which is only a rendering of stage-directions into the past tense:

Eleanor led Sam into the kitchen. A minute or two later Adrian, wearing a T-shirt and tracksuit trousers, came down the stairs and went along the hall towards the front door. … He looked around as if in search of something.

But it is no bad thing if, for most of its course, Home Truths is still what it was: an amusing and nicely crafted satire on the contending impulses—out towards publicity...