Books: The Right Kind of Virgin

THE UNICORN GIRL by Caroline Glyn. 192 pages. Coward-McCann. $4.

There seems to be no letup in Britain's export of talented kids: first the pop singers, then the clothing designers, now a precocious novelist who will be around for a long time. At 19, Caroline Glyn, a great-granddaughter of Elinor Glyn, is technically a teenager, but in skill and imagination she is a veteran. Her first novel, Don't Knock the Corners Off, was a winning, blithe schoolgirl adventure that knocked all four corners off an English education—and she was 15 when she wrote it....

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