Happy New Year to the 'Left Bank' Bloggers and I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. I enjoyed several breaks with routine, including some wobbly health, but I'm fine now - in fact much better than before - and raring to go! I managed to get a lot of writing and reading done in between socialising, walking and sleeping. Books to recommend are: The Other Elizabeth Taylor a biography of the writer ET by Nicola Beauman, who is quite wonderful about the actual process of writing and rather contentious in what she reveals. The biography sent me back to ET's stories, which I love, and they kindled some story ideas which must have been lurking in my unconscious. Also, Esther Waters (1894) by the Irish novelist George Moore - he's not in the same writing league as Dickens, Eliot, Trollope etc, and the novel is skimmable in parts if you are not interested in horse racing and betting, but a fascinating story of being poor, pregnant and trapped by conventions in late 19thC London - I imagine it caused quite a scandal, at the time, with its accounts of baby farming.
Look forward to seeing you all at our next meeting. Carole
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