Inès Cagnati’s Free Day was the ninth book I read for the #NYRBWomen25 reading project — one I had never heard of before, but which turned out to be a marvellous discovery, much like Maria Dermoût’s gorgeous, enigmatic The Ten Thousand Things, which I read thanks to #NYRBWomen23. Set against the bleak marshlands of southwestern…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
Mavis Gallant’s Paris Stories was the eighth book I read as part of the excellent #NYRBWomen25 reading project, and what a sublime collection it was! This also happened to be the first book I read …| Radhika's Reading Retreat
I read Caroline Blackwood’s marvellous Great Granny Webster for #NYRBWomen25, the fifth book I’ve now read as part of this terrific reading project. I read this in April but could not write about i…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
I had read Elizabeth Hardwick’s essay collection Seduction and Betrayal many years ago but unfortunately did not write about it at the time, although I have a vague recollection of being impressed …| Radhika's Reading Retreat