Status Updates From FALLING SLOWLY

I'm definitely going through a personal crisis at the moment and I'm learning tha in a time of utter exhaustion and some desperation it's better for me personally to stick to Elizabeth Taylor novels than to try and mix things up with some late stage Brookner

'You've been reading too much. That was always your trouble.'
' my trouble is that neither of these characters came out of a book. There were no happy endings.'

She joined this group, you are. They met every week to denounce male power. '
'How very old-fashioned of them.'

- a rare market that Brookner was part of the culture of the 90s and au fait with the spice girls and the concept of the ladette 😛

She saw that there two people who had never met, held the keys to her own life, were her completion, her fulfilment...

As a reader I don't think that I agree