It was tough and I found it interesting that the author makes out a case for good having come out of it; better doctors, teachers, welfare workers and so on because the women gave all their energies to their jobs. Thought provoking, as you say.
Yes, she's the secretary. I love the books and I don't like the liberties the TV series has taken with them: introducing a gay hairdresser, for instance. Given African views on homosexuality it's strange he's so accepted! I think they're looking at the American market.
Honestly, I just want to come over and sit down in your new kitchen and listen to you talk about books! How about tomorrow morning? :<) Everything you talk about I want to read. Funny about the rich thing with Laura. I didn't even think about it because she is just so running in place doing all the stuff for that damn Inigo. I felt like she got caught up in a life that she wasn't meant to be in. His criticisms of her drove me nuts, though I could believe they loved one another. It was nice seeing The Beauty again, wasn't it? Have you visited any sites about her? There is lots and lots more info than when I first began reading her. Then I couldn't find anything at all. She is now divorced and the kids are older as well as the move to London so I can't help but think her books will change. Reminds me of Margaret Drabble who I read religiously when she and I were both younger. I hung on every word. But I haven't been able to read her for years now. I don't think I'll even watch the Mma Ramotswe when it comes on dvd. Thank
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Re: Your bookscallmemadamApril 2 2009, 06:56:35 UTC
Oh, I want to visit *your* kitchen! :-) Inigo is awful and I think men who need looking after have been a part of Raffaella Barker's life; I believe her father was like that. I've looked at her web site but didn't find anything interesting. The Beauty is getting rather a handful!
As I've just said in another reply, I think the TV Ladies' Detective series is aimed at Americans. They've sentimentalised it, bringing in cute children who aren't in the books.
Like you, I don't read Margaret Drabble any more but Jerusalem the Golden is still a favourite of mine. A great rite of passage book.
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April 3 2009, 01:01:57 UTC
'Like you, I don't read Margaret Drabble any more but Jerusalem the Golden is still a favourite of mine. A great rite of passage book.' Please remind me of the plot. There's a section in one of her old books which reminds me of the Pink Floyd song: 'far away across the field, the tolling of the iron bell' - do you have any memory of what I mean? It seems like there was a country house and a church across the field. Gee, the stuff that stays in one's mind. Anyhow it's an image that hasn't left.
Re: Margaret D.callmemadamApril 3 2009, 07:16:07 UTC
Jerusalem the Golden. Clever working class girl Clara, from a repressive background, meets upper middle class Clelia and falls in love with her whole family. ISTR Margaret Drabble said she had been influenced by Rosamund Lehmann's A Dusty Answer. The book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. I know whole sentences off by heart, I've read it so often.
Your Pink Floyd reference means nothing to me, sorry!
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It was tough and I found it interesting that the author makes out a case for good having come out of it; better doctors, teachers, welfare workers and so on because the women gave all their energies to their jobs. Thought provoking, as you say.
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I'm still planning on reading the books though!
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Inigo is awful and I think men who need looking after have been a part of Raffaella Barker's life; I believe her father was like that. I've looked at her web site but didn't find anything interesting. The Beauty is getting rather a handful!
As I've just said in another reply, I think the TV Ladies' Detective series is aimed at Americans. They've sentimentalised it, bringing in cute children who aren't in the books.
Like you, I don't read Margaret Drabble any more but Jerusalem the Golden is still a favourite of mine. A great rite of passage book.
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Your Pink Floyd reference means nothing to me, sorry!
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