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Must Confess, Arty People Are Not My Tribe.

Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley

June 29, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

Told alternately in the present and the past, Late in the Day follows the lives of two arty and fairly wealthy London couples, Alex and Christine, and Zachary and Lydia.  The quartet turns into a trio in no time with the sudden death of Zachary from a heart attack.  Christine is a fairly well-known artist, and her husband Alex a primary school headmaster, having given up an earlier attempt to become a writer.  Lydia has been Christine’s closest friend from their childhood days, and Zach […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Domestic drama, London art scene, past and present, Tessa Hadley, Who are these people?

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:32 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Domestic drama, London art scene, past and present, Tessa Hadley, Who are these people? ·
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Reader, this was an absolute delight

Reader, I Married Him by Tracy Chevalier (editor)

December 31, 2019 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Reader, we all know how we feel about Jane Eyre. We also know how we feel about that fateful sentence: Reader, I married him. This collection of 21 stories, created to celebrate Charlotte Bronte’s 200th birthday in 2016 and written by an all-female team of authors, all have strong feelings on the matter as well, and these stories run the gamut from the reverent to the satirical. This collection is a jewelry box in your grandmother’s attic full of treasure and cheap pieces alike, and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Audrey Niffenegger, charlotte bront, classic retelling, Elizabeth McCracken, emma donoghue, francine prose, jane eyre, short stories, Tessa Hadley, Tracy Chevalier

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR11 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Audrey Niffenegger, charlotte bront, classic retelling, Elizabeth McCracken, emma donoghue, francine prose, jane eyre, short stories, Tessa Hadley, Tracy Chevalier ·
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