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By talking to other writer friends - who always have an opinion which, right or wrong, seems to shake my block and drive me back to the screen.
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My review of The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family, by Mary S. Lovell
The Mitford Girlsby Mary S. Lovell My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
I had already read and loved this, and the same author's brilliant Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth.
Then, with the global streaming release of TV drama series Outrageous, I had to re-read this old Mitford favourite of mine on which the series is based, if just to touch base and catch up.
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I had already read and loved this, and the same author's brilliant Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth. Then, with the global streaming release of TV drama series Outrageous, I had to re-read this old Mitford favourite of mine on which the seri ...more |
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I felt this was a timely read for the 2026 WorldPride events. There are moments in history when private lives, long lived in the shadows, suddenly become legible. Not because the world has changed, but because someone has taken the risk of speaking pl ...more |
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Femi Taylor is, like so many entertainment figures, so much more than her fanbase sees. She has lived for decades in the peculiar half‑light of cultural visibility — instantly recognisable yet largely unexamined, iconic yet misunderstood. To millions ...more |
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I was bought this as a birthday gift by someone who knew my fanaticism for Jean Rhys. This intimate glimpse into the personal comments of my all-time favourite writer had me mesmerised from start to finish. The letters include those from 1931, when sh ...more |
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| This is for me the definitive period saga, by Nobel Prize-winning John Galsworthy. The reader follows the intertwined characters' lives for many years and several generations, with the collection comprising three hefty novels breaking down into five ...more | |
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I just re-read this, as background revision, while watching the 2022 drama series 'Becoming Elizabeth'. Alison Plowden is a queen of this genre. Her writing is addictive. Her research is meticulous, her detail mindboggling, her immortalised subject re ...more |
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“I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.”
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“A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.”
― Good Morning, Midnight
― Good Morning, Midnight
“My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafés where they like me and cafés where they don't, streets that are friendly, streets that aren't, rooms where I might be happy, rooms where I shall never be, looking-glasses I look nice in, looking-glasses I don't, dresses that will be lucky, dresses that won't, and so on.”
― Good Morning, Midnight
― Good Morning, Midnight
“Life if curious when reduced to its essentials”
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“A room? A nice room? A beautiful room? A beautiful room with bath? Swing high, swing low, swing to and fro...This happened and that happened...
And then the days came and I was alone.”
― Good Morning, Midnight
And then the days came and I was alone.”
― Good Morning, Midnight
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Lauren wrote: "Thanks for the friend request. Also, good answer - very good answer!"Lauren wrote: "Thanks for the friend request. Also, good answer - very good answer!"
Thanks Lauren, yes I've been a diehard Jean Rhys fanatic for about 35 years :-)