I know sometimes I am waaaay behind the game. I know this book was published in 1991, and I know that far greater heads than mine have critiqued it. But for those of you like me, who have somehow missed out on reading it until now, I would recommend that...
The Children {Charlotte Wood} The Children by Charlotte Wood is an intriguing story of a family, as normal as most. ‘As normal as most’ includes the usual collection of an elderly mother coming to grips with prospect of a life alone,...
I thought as part of my usual series of book reviews that I would include some titles that I keep picking up again and again, because they intrigue me. I love a good book. I get seduced by the language, the plot-line, the structure of the book. Gould’s...
The Rain Tree by Mirabel Osler is a dense and poetic memoir, weaving backwards and forwards through the lives of the author and those surrounding her – her husband and three children, and her mother Phyllis and her mother’s best friend Stella Bowen,...
