Like with most stories that start with a twenty-something London-based office worker navigating the breakdown of a long-term relationship, your mind settles in for a harmless piece of Chick-Lit. And then Caroline O'Donoghue's Promising Young Women knocks you off-centre by turning into something else entirely. The praise on the book's sleeve repeatedly uses the word "gothic."…
A year ago I was living in Lyon with A LOT of spare time, that I mostly spent reading, and today is one year since I finished reading Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf. I've spoken on this blog already about how this book 'changed my life' but nope, I'm still not over it. My mum…
Fifty Shades of Grey - E L James I am aware that I am years late on the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon train but this month my dissertation and my flatmates' cinematic plans for our Valentine's Day prompted me to finally give the first book of the franchise a go. I had heard that it was…
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