StuckinaBook’s Weekend Miscellany

Is it spring? Maybe? Almost? My apple tree is showing some lovely blossom, my wisteria is refusing to do anything, and my hay fever has kicked up a notch. So I would conclude – on balance, yes, but let’s not put away the jumpers yet.

Hope you have good weekend plans. Here’s a book, a link, and a blog post to cheer you along the way…

1.) The link – is really a book too (cheat!) – I wanted to alert you to the fact that A Pin To See The Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse is the British Library’s Book of the Month. That means the print edition is only £5 from the shop. As I wrote on Twitter, there’s a strong argument that this is the best and most important of the British Library Women Writers series – and now you can get it for a steal.

2.) The blog post – Is it cheating to send you to a blog post of links? I’m just always amazed at how Jenny at Reading the End finds so many links to share – check out her latest round-up.

3.) The book – You might have already heard about Latchkey Ladies by Marjorie Grant, but this description will sell it to you if you haven’t: “The latchkey ladies are the women who live alone or in shared rooms in London at the end of the First World War, determined to use their new freedoms, and treading a fine line between independence and disaster. A powerful and moving novel from 1921, about the lives and choices of single women, by Marjorie Grant, a Canadian novelist and reviewer, and a close friend of Rose Macaulay.”