
Look what I found today, @Centique , and right after your glowing review! I also found another Beryl Bainbridge, @Cathythoughts . 👏
Just doing my best to support my local secondhand bookshop on #IndependentBookstoreDay , of course. 😉
Look what I found today, @Centique , and right after your glowing review! I also found another Beryl Bainbridge, @Cathythoughts . 👏
Just doing my best to support my local secondhand bookshop on #IndependentBookstoreDay , of course. 😉
I‘m kicking myself because i had almost finished this book and then the library insisted i bring it back 😂 But it was probably the best collection of short stories I‘ve ever read! That is - if you like authors like Barbara Pym, Anita Brookner, maybe Penelope Lively. These are frequently bittersweet stories where the main character is a woman, often an older woman, and they focus on love and grief and ageing and mistakes and chances lost and ⬇️
My #top10ofthedecade #fictionedition - these being favorite books that I've actually read which were published in the past ten years. (Really 12 because I cheat and like grids to be balanced🤷🏻♀️)
Gardam is one of my favorite authors, and this is a fantastic collection. On sale today in US ebook stores.
Seriously, she's brilliant.
From "The Pangs of Love" a witty take on the aftermath of the HC Andersen The Little Mermaid tale. This is not a typical subject of Gardam's writing, which mostly centers on older people and their emotional lives, which sounds boring, but honestly isn't. She's very Austen-like in a lot of ways, and The Sidwell Letters is one of the best short stories I've ever read.
And she's very, very funny.
Her books are just so good!
But also I want to buy all the Europa editions of her stuff because they‘re just so pretty.