“He looked at what he could see of her face–half turned away from him but unmistakably downcast–and tried another tack.” This is one of the later of the Elizabeth Jane Howard books, and well, to my horror, I listened to the audiobook not realizing it was an abridged version.  Sigh.  This always paints me into a weird corner personally where I have to decide whether it “counts” for me to have read the book or not. Obviously, the answer is who cares, I can do […]

“The day began at five to seven when the alarm clock (given to Phyllis by her mother when she started service) went off on and on and on until she quenched it.” This is book one of a five book series that was first published beginning in the late 1980s and then through about 2011 before Elizabeth Jane Howard died a few years ago. She was probably more famous during her lifetime than she is now, and more people should get to know her, because […]