It's not all cozy rooms with lace curtains, plants in pots, ticking clocks, ornaments and coronation mugs, the wireless playing, and tabby cats waiting. It's true that, when A Wreath of Roses opens, Camilla is waiting for the train which will take her to the countryside, to vacation
Looking ahead to the linked stories in Who Do You Think You Are? readers might recall her earlier collection Lives of Girls and Women. Alice Munro has consistently said that it wasn't in her to write a novel, but these collections of linked stories could work as introductions
If it had only been made into a film, I'm convinced that Elizabeth Taylor's Palladian would enjoy the same public flourishes of devotion that Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm can claim. Both novels are so bookishly satirical that we bookish folks have to squint to see the satire. But where
The Elizabeth Taylor Centenary has celebrated four novels this year, so far. May marks our reading of A Game of Hide and Seek. Who's in? Published in 1951 in England, Elizabeth Bowen's review of the novel reads like this: "Two masterpiece love stories in our language, Persuasion and Wuthering Heights,
April has been my quietest reading month yet, but it has held some fantastic reading, so I'm not complaining. And I was able to join in Dewey's Read-a-Thon at the last minute too. Challenge Reading/Reading Projects: Eowyn Ivey's The Snow Child (2012) Manda Scott's Hen's Teeth (1997) Elizabeth Jolley's Miss Peabody's Inheritance (1983) Classic Reading: Homer's The Odyssey and
