Status Updates From The Squire

Certainly some very interesting and radical stuff for its time about pregnancy and motherhood, and the writing is good, but lacks something essential somehow.

This has sat on my shelves unread for a few years (one of those impulse "see green spine in a second-hand bookshop= buy" things), but the first couple of pages worked for me this morning, so i am diving in

"If a man had a child and he was also a writer we should have heard a lot about it," [Bagnold] once commented. "I wanted The Squire to be exactly as objective as if a man had had a baby."

These days, of course, the situation she describes is far more commonly acknowledged as both credible and possible, but the literary sentiment she was getting at remains of note.