Review: See What I Have Done, Sarah Schmidt
Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. I actually can’t remember how old I […]
Month: February 2021
Sunday Song – Soul Meets Body
Back in my days of full-time office employment (seems like another life these days tbh), I had a habit of listening to this song once before I started work. On […]
Saturday Poem – February
I’ve recently been reading Eleanor Fitzsimon’s excellent Edith Nesbit biography and through this discovered that Edith Nesbit wrote poetry! Having only really known about her as the ‘Railway Children’ lady, […]
Review: The Best of Me, David Sedaris
I grew up with David Sedaris’ voice in the background, periodically cropping up on Radio 4 as far back as the 1990s. It was only within the last decade though […]
Top Ten Love Stories from Fiction & Literature
Love is in the air! Last Valentine’s Day, I went full on ‘Galentines’ with my circle of ‘mum friends’ and we attended an Audrey Hepburn themed Bingo night. I had […]
Review: The Illustrated Child, Polly Crosby
This was another book that I sadly misjudged. The blurb and title seemed to promise a tale of an eccentric childhood in a ‘ramshackle’ house with a literary mystery alongside. […]
Review: The House of Trelawney, Hannah Rothschild
This was my most disappointing read of 2020. I had been ‘saving it’ after having absolutely adored Rothschild’s debut The Improbability of Love and when I finally settled down to it, it […]