Penny Batchelor The Woman Next Door Embla Books, May 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. The main character, Jen, has three dilemmas to deal with: her inability to become pregnant, despite two expensive IVF treatments; her and Gary’s financial position which makes saving for another IVF treatment difficult;Continue reading “Week beginning July 30th 2025”
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Week beginning 23 July 2025
Emily Callaci Wages for Housework The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor Basic Books | Seal Press, March 2025. Thankyou, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Emily Callaci has brought together five activists for whom wages for housework was a part of their feminist work for improving women’s lives. It is importantContinue reading “Week beginning 23 July 2025”
Week beginning 16 July 2025
Elizabeth Jenkins Jane Austen: The Biography August Books, July 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Elizabeth Jenkins is a writer I have admired since reading The Hare and the Tortoise. True to form, there is much to admire in her biography of Jane Austen. However, its meandering paceContinue reading “Week beginning 16 July 2025”
Week beginning 9 July 2025
Claire Allan The Perfect Mother Boldwood Books, February 2025. Thank you, NetGalley and Boldwood Books for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Claire Allan has combined a story line that engages, with complex characters and twists that are not only clever, but a logical part of the story. Allen has not fallen forContinue reading “Week beginning 9 July 2025”
Week beginning 2 July 2025
Katrina Lockwood The Mystery of Isabella and the String of Beads A Woman Doctor In World War 1 Loke Press, 2017. I originally reviewed this book on the Women’s History Network blog, in 2017. A long time ago, but the approach to writing history as well as the content deserves another airing. The back-cover blurbContinue reading “Week beginning 2 July 2025”
Week beginning 25 June 2025
Man Who Has It All Flipping Patriarchy Imagining a gender-swapped world Unbound, March 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Imagine not having to search through Facebook posts to enjoy page after page of admonitions and guidance which are mischievous on the surface, but so sharp. So sharp indeedContinue reading “Week beginning 25 June 2025”
Week beginning 18 June 2025
Joanna Hagan Friends and the Golden Age of the Sitcom Pen & Sword | White Owl, August 2024. Thank you, NetGalley and Pen & Sword for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. There is a wealth of information about Friends, and other television shows that featured in the period in which the sitContinue reading “Week beginning 18 June 2025”
Week beginning June 11, 2025
Kerrie Davies Miles Franklin Undercover The little-known years when she created her own brilliant career Allen & Unwin, November 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this work but was constantly wanting to be reassured about where elements of accuracy and imagination lay. As alwaysContinue reading “Week beginning June 11, 2025”
Week beginning 4 June 2025
Todd Almond Slow Train Coming Bob Dylan’s Girl from the North Country and Broadway’s Rebirth Bloomsbury Academic | Methuen Drama, January 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for this uncorrected proof for review. This is an intensely personal account of the challenges in staging a play on Broadway. The narrative concentrates strongly on Todd Almond’s experiences and responses, whileContinue reading “Week beginning 4 June 2025”
Week beginning 28 May 2025.
Maya Golden Bethany The Senator Rising Action Publishing | Rising Action, April 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. This is a thriller with some positive features – the topic is pertinent, the characters interesting, and the story line logical and believable. There are no confected twists or illogical events, andContinue reading “Week beginning 28 May 2025.”
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