![]() ![]() It made me fully aware of the obloquy that has been inexplicably heaped upon her for centuries, by scholars and popular culture alike. Germaine Greer’s Shakespeare’s Wife is a rigorously researched and deftly argued examination of the life of Anne Hathaway. The economy and pacing she employs while describing the entire lifespan of a character fascinates me, as does her understanding of the tension between our interiors and exteriors. The economy and particularity of Albert Camus’s The Outsider set against the generous scope and unsettling omniscience of George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda.Īmy Bloom is well known for her novels – and rightly so – but I have been in love with her short stories for years. ![]() If I could only save one book from a supernatural conflagration of all books ever written, it would be this one. I’m not sure I wish I’d written it – because how on earth could I possibly have done so? – but I wholeheartedly admire and adore Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. ![]()
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