There certainly is insight of feeling in Bernice Ruben's novel Go tell the lemming…. The book tellingly pinpoints the cruelties of the situation, the selfishness of the husband's indecision, his bland pretence that all is still well, and Angela's helpless inability to condemn him for it…. Rejection makes Angela destructive in her turn, until she meets complete destruction at the hands of someone whose rejection is even more painful than her own. This is the culmination of several intelligent attempts to offset Angela's suffering, and create some perspective within the novel: but the other characters never grow beyond the schematic. (p. 675)

Roger Garfitt, "Safe Audacity" (© British Broadcasting Corp. 1973; reprinted by permission of Roger Garfitt), in The Listener, Vol. 90, No. 2329, November 15, 1973, pp. 674-75.∗