In a pretty amazing coincidence given the date, a book called The Shadow of Marriage: Singleness in England 1914-60 by Katherine Holden caught my eye at work today. I ordered it up from the library and hope to get stuck into it on Monday.
The book will be particularly interesting to read in light of the Daily Mail’s last-ditch and rather transparently desperate attempt to spin the findings of a very sad study about suicide into a cautionary fable against the perils of spinsterhood.
I am well into the first book from my giant to-read list – Saturday by Ian McEwan. I am completely absorbed thus far, which makes my bus journey to work much less painful. I have a small mountain of McEwan, largely because I read The Child in Time for a postmodernism module at university, loved it, and promptly took advantage of a 3-for-2 offer at Waterstones. I hope they are all as engrossing.
