The concept of the women’s supper club itself in Supper Club is deliciously unashamedly feminist. What happens when women exist in spaces they are told they shouldn’t exist in? When they experience pure joy and act on desires that they’re not supposed to have? When instead of always trying to make themselves smaller and smaller, they make … Continue reading Review: Supper Club – Lara Williams
Tag: contemporary fiction
Review: #TheWomaninthePhotograph – Stephanie Butland
If you're looking for a novel that will shake up your perspective on the world, this is one for you. Transporting us to the women's movement of the 70s, The Woman in the Photograph, by Stephanie Butland is a feminist book about women's fight for equality and exacting change. We see much of the novel … Continue reading Review: #TheWomaninthePhotograph – Stephanie Butland
Review: Expectation – Anna Hope
Expectation by Anna Hope was one of those books I felt an instant connection to. It is one of the most refreshingly honest novels I have read in a long time - an exquisite view of womanhood and female friendships that is at once beautifully tender and painfully raw. It tells the story of friends … Continue reading Review: Expectation – Anna Hope
Through The Pages: ‘Just domestic women’s writing’? | #Unless #CarolShields
The first book I've chosen to talk about in my first 'Through The Pages' post is: Unless, by Carol Shields. Just looking at this well thumbed, loved, pretty bedraggled copy takes me right back to being a teenager, studying for my A-levels and thinking about what I wanted to study at university. I didn't choose … Continue reading Through The Pages: ‘Just domestic women’s writing’? | #Unless #CarolShields
A Modern Family – by Helga Flatland | @HelgaFlatland @rosie_hedger @OrendaBooks
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for A Modern Family, by Helga Flatland! From the outset, I knew this was going to be a book that I loved - a book that pulls out the many intricate and meaningful narratives that are hidden within seemingly everyday lives and events. Reading this book feels … Continue reading A Modern Family – by Helga Flatland | @HelgaFlatland @rosie_hedger @OrendaBooks
Bonnie and Stan – Anna Stuart
This is just the most endearing story. Bonnie and Stan is about, well...Bonnie and Stan. They are soulmates, who first met in Liverpool in the Swinging Sixties - they have now been together for 50 years, having raised a family and grown old together. When we first meet them, they have just received some news … Continue reading Bonnie and Stan – Anna Stuart
Ellie and the Harp Maker – Hazel Prior
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Ellie and the Harp Maker by Hazel Prior. As someone who loves music and plays some instruments (to varying levels of success), this book immediately called out to me (with the gentle, resonant plucking of a harp!). One day, on a bit of a whim, Ellie, … Continue reading Ellie and the Harp Maker – Hazel Prior
The Botanist’s Daughter – Kayte Nunn
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for the beautiful The Botanist’s Daughter, by Kayte Nunn. The Botanist's Daughter takes us on an immense voyage, following two women who are centuries and oceans apart. In present day Australia, Anna is mourning the loss of her Grandmother Gus, and has somewhat lost her way in … Continue reading The Botanist’s Daughter – Kayte Nunn
Tiger – Polly Clark
When I started the epic journey that is Tiger, I had no idea what to expect. Like one of the book’s central characters, primatologist Freida, I have always admired tigers, but in quite a one dimensional way - thinking of them primarily as instinctive, violent, powerful creatures - not necessarily qualities I’d have seen lending … Continue reading Tiger – Polly Clark
Sophie Jo's Bookshelf 