Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon
Endpapers taken from 1970s knit fabric in private collection
When I read Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski a year ago, I felt as if my heart had been ripped out in the heightened emotion of the closing pages; with Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon, the emotional intensity was present from the opening page and sustained [...]
To Bed With Grand Music
To Bed With Grand Music by Marghanita Laski is the fourth of her novels that Persephone Books have published but was the first of those four to be published, in 1946 under the pseudonym “Sarah Russell”. A unique take on the experience of women in WWII England, To Bed With Grand Music opens with [...]
The Persephone Perplex
On Monday I presented you with the most perplexing of Persephone problems … what book should I most definitely read this week? To help me with this I dangled a dazzling carrot in front of you: the person who gave the most persuasive argument would win a Persephone book of their choice and [...]
The Victorian Chaise-longue Quiz
Nicola Beauman of Persephone Books very generously gave Verity and I new copies of books for give-aways during this Persephone Reading Week. Lydia from the Lamb’s Conduit Street shop and myself carefully selected a few; Doreen by Barbara Noble was to mark the forthcoming seventieth anniversary of the Blitz (please see Verity’s WWII quiz), The [...]
On the Bedside Table
Do you have several books on the go at once? I’m usually what you would consider a monogamous reader: a girl who is loyal to one book at a time; occasionally though I read a few books at once, especially longer classics and books that I am reading over an extended period of time. [...]
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