She Rises 1st January 1970
It is 1740 and Louise Fletcher, a young dairymaid on an Essex farm, has been warned of the lure of the sea for as long as she can remember – after all, it stole away her father and brother....
Blogs in January 1970
The Painter 1st January 1970
Beautifully evocative and suspensful double time-scheme narrative about Rembrandt, love and art. In January, 1662, the artist Rembrandt, bankrupted in the great tulip crash, accidentally stows away on a boat for Hull. To pay for his passage, he must...
The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life 1st January 1970
This is the first book in a loose trilogy and is set over 10 days in 2000. Laura is content enough with her marriage, two children and part-time job. That is, until a lover from her past comes back...
Mrs Dalloway 1st January 1970
This book follows Clarissa Dalloway through one day as she goes about preparing a party that same evening. This beautiful day brings back memories of her childhood, and ponders her choice of husband – should she have married Mr...
Towards the End of the Morning 1st January 1970
The true Fleet Street life that Frayn describes is long gone, but this book is tremendously evocative of journalism in the 1960s. Dyson is running small columns but yearns for bigger things. Work is carried out late morning and...
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