Misleading items in papers on French author taking in ass (5,3,7)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

this was almost my LOI. I thought it must be “somethings and somethings”, eventually saw MIRRORS could be papers, and thought of George SAND as the author to give me ****S AND. But having the S at the end of the first word held me up, until I remembered a mini-moke was a sort of open top mini car and a moke was a donkey, and the donkey went inside SAND.