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• THOUGHTS ON: Nightmare Abbey

  By Paula Bardell-Hedley on 15/09/2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Set in a former abbey whose owner is host to an eccentric gathering of visitors.

• THOUGHTS ON: Cat’s Eye

  By Paula Bardell-Hedley on 14/09/2017 • ( 8 )

  

  I reflect on Atwood’s 1988 Booker-nominated novel about a controversial artist grappling with the tangled knots of her life.

• THOUGHTS ON: Me Again: Uncollected Writings Of Stevie Smith

  By Paula Bardell-Hedley on 05/09/2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Florence Margaret Smith (1902-1971), known to friends and readers as Stevie Smith, was a highly witty English writer, most famous for her perceptive, clever little poems.

• THOUGHTS ON: The Awakening: And Other Stories

  By Paula Bardell-Hedley on 03/09/2017 • ( 0 )

  This short but impassioned novel, first published at the turn of the 19th century, portrays a new way of thinking; a dissension among the women of North America and Europe, which caused excitement and consternation in equal measures.

• THOUGHTS ON: The Vegetarian

  By Paula Bardell-Hedley on 31/07/2017 • ( 2 )

  

  The Vegetarian is concerned with obsession, desire, fear, disintegration of family and madness.

• THOUGHTS ON: The Outrun

  By Paula Bardell-Hedley on 26/06/2017 • ( 3 )

  

  Without a doubt, this book has been my favourite read of 2017.

• THOUGHTS ON: Tove Jansson Life, Art, Words: The Authorised Biography

  By Paula Bardell-Hedley on 27/02/2017 • ( 16 )

  

  Tove Jansson, author of the Moomins and one of the great idiosyncratic talents of the 20th century, must surely have found her ideal biographer in Boel Westin.

• Book Review: The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies

  By Paula Bardell-Hedley on 31/01/2017 • ( 0 )

  You know you’ve morphed into a literoholic when you start reading books about books – and having just finished The Novel Cure, I must also confess to being something of a literary valetudinarian.