'Silence becomes a woman.' Every woman I’ve ever known was brought up on that saying
Review: Blindness, by Jose Saramago
I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing
Review: One Day In December, by Josie Silver
A light, quick, fun read that brings a little sparkly magic into your life!
Review: A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara
All the most terrifying ifs involve people. All the good ones do as well
Review: Circe, by Madeline Miller
When I was born, the name for what I was did not exist
Review: Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik
Thrice you shall turn silver to gold for me, or be changed to ice yourself
Review: The Woman In Black, by Susan Hill
I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever
Review: Promising Young Women, by Caroline O’Donoghue
The corporate version of natural selection
Review: Legendary (Caraval #2), by Stephanie Garber
A heart to protect. A debt to repay. A game to win
Review: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman
In the end, what matters is this: I survived
Review: The Betrayals, by Fiona Neill
Life isn’t about doing the right thing. It’s about not doing the wrong thing
Review: Everless, by Sarah Holland
Time is a prison. She is the key. Packed with danger, temptation and desire
Review: Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
The only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it
Review: Life With A Star, by Jiří Weil
People always think there's hope, even they're standing over an open grave
Why I Read So Much
Why I love reading. And why you should too!
Review: Fever Dream, by Samanta Schweblin
Strange can be quite normal
Review: My Absolute Darling, by Gabriel Tallent
You need to surrender yourself to death before you ever begin, and accept your life as a state of grace
Women & Power, My Own Manifesto
You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure
Review: The Wicked Cometh, by Laura Carlin
Down the murky alleyways of London, acts of unspeakable wickedness are taking place
Review: The Children Act, by Ian McEwan
That the world should be filled with such detail, such tiny points of human frailty, threatened to crush her and she had to look away
A Literary Mind 