Henrietta’s War: Joyce Dennys Bloomsbury 2009

This series of fictional letters written during the second world war was first brought together in 1985. They’d previously been serialised during the wat itself. It made me think of a Venn diagram between Mrs Tim and The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Socety with a dollop of Dad’s Army.

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society: Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, Bloomsbury 2008.I devoured this last weekend - abandoning any fellow feeling with correspondents waiting days for answers to their questions. It’s been a while (by which I mean over nine years) since I bought it and read it, though I remembered some bits ( Read more... )

I feel I must preface this post as it’s about an American book that references women’s suffrage by saying that I read ‘Daddy Long-Legs’ at the end of October, but hadn’t been able to finish this review until now.

Daddy Long Legs: Jean Webster, Hodder & Stoughton

When I went to see the musical adaptation of this book (four years ago, EEK!), I ( Read more... )

Daddy Long Legs St James’s Theatre, London

I spotted that there was a forthcoming musical adaptation of Jean Webster’s Daddy Long Legs in a newspaper, and, although it’s many years since I read the book - I suspect I’ve read Webster’s Just Patty more recently - I had to go. I keep meaning to see more theatrical productions (plays, musicals or ( Read more... )