Reading Update – 29/10/22

Square Haunting - a literary biography set between the wars wows and Austen's more daring Mansfield Park.

Perfume From Provence by Lady Fortescue

A fun and humorous account of life in Provence in the 1930's through English eyes.

Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood by Gwen Raverat

A Victorian memoir set in Cambridge, England about Gwen Raverat's (Charles Darwin's Granddaughter) childhood.

The Hills Is Lonely by Lillian Beckwith

This is a book I've read before, many years ago, so it was familiar to me. Set in the late 1950's, it's a memoir posing as fiction and follows Miss Peckwitt, a middle aged Englishwoman, who recuperates on a Hebridean island in Scotland in a place called Bruach. She lodges with Morag and is introduced …

Fenland Chronicle by Sybil Marshall

Fenland Chronicle is composed of two memoirs of the author's parents, taken from their memories in the late Victorian and Edwardian era's. The Fens are a low, marshy area in England. Sybil Marshall's father, Will En' (Edwards)/Bill 'Arry, reminisces about his schooling, upbringing, and working life. There are some very funny stories he relates including …