Victoria Scott The Storyteller’s Daughter Boldwood Books, January 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. In this story that weaves together a narrative from the past with one from the present day, Victoria Scott combines World War 11 historical events, the role of women in work and family environmentsContinue reading “Week beginning March 12, 2025”
Tag Archives: International Women's Day
Week beginning 8 March 2023
International Women’s Day International Women’s Day March 8 is an appropriate time to review How to Think Like a Woman Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind, a book that recognises the way in which her own and her subjects’ domestic lives impacted on acceptance of their roleContinue reading “Week beginning 8 March 2023”
Week beginning 2 March 2022
Reviewing Tom Stoppard A Life was an interesting process – looming large was the question ‘How did I enjoy the plays of this conservative person who, in my opinion, dined too many times with Margaret Thatcher? The closest I could come to recalling any sense of political unease was at the end of seeing NightContinue reading “Week beginning 2 March 2022”
Robin's Room 