The Other Elizabeth Taylor Narrates the Old Age, New Adventure of Bevilacqua and Chamorro, Franco According to Ruiz Mantilla and Other Books of the Week

In the hierarchy of the great English-language novelists, our expert José María Guelbenzu equates writer Elizabeth Taylor with authors of the caliber of Rosamond Lehmann, Daphne du Maurier, Margaret Kennedy, D. J. Stevenson, Muriel Spark, Barbara Pym... and only one step below Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf. And our book of the week is Forbidden to die here, in which Elizabeth Taylor makes a tale of old age through several older characters taking…