1. The author of the best-selling Wideacre , The Favoured Child and now Meridon (Viking, hbk 13.99) is a past master of sentimental education, and Meridon is no exception: a hybrid of a novel, rank nonsense with literary pretension, a bodice ripper with a socialist message, as right-on as it's decidedly right-off. BNC
2. That book, a "bodice ripper," will soon be followed by a thriller, inevitably titled Campaign. BNC
3. She`s written a serious novel, not some sort of bodice-ripper. CIDoI