Here are ten recommendations from me for #SpinsterSeptember, created and hosted by the lovely Nora on Instagram and Bluesky. While curating this list, I selected books with protagonist/protagonists…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
I seem to be in the mood for some Persephone books at the moment having recently read and loved Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins, followed by Guard Your Daughters by Diana Tutton which turned out to be…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
May Sinclair’s Life and Death of Harriett Frean is a pitch-perfect study of a woman’s life traced from cradle to grave compressed into a taut 180 pages. With quiet precision, Sinclair distills the …| Radhika's Reading Retreat
I read my first Anita Brookner in 2020, the superb Look at Me, a book that found a place on My Best Books of 2020 list, but for some inexplicable reason I haven’t read more of her work since. To co…| Radhika's Reading Retreat