Reviews

‘Invisible’s got an excellent, tense plot, shifting between the two main characters, with a good number of surprises along the way. Poulson always has great, strong women characters, with real lives and feelings . . .  I liked the fact that the depictions of violence and injury were realistic without being over-detailed or gloating . . . It was a pleasure to find a book that did the excitement, the jeopardy and the thrills without putting off this reader . . .  a very good read for anyone.’

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Singled Out

Posted on Mar 2, 2015 in Elizabeth Goudge, Elizabeth Jenkins, Gertrude Caton-Thomson, Mary Grieve, Rosamund Essex, Singled Out, Uncategorized, Virginia Nicholson | 8 Comments

I’ve very much enjoyed Virginia Nicholson’s Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War. It is the kind of gossipy, anecdotal history that is very easy to read. Nicholson has done an enormous amount of research. The pages throng with remarkable women who managed to find meaning in life without a […]

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Miss Marple: Proto-feminist? Scarcely, and yet . . .

Posted on Feb 23, 2015 in Agatha Christie, crime fiction, Miss Marple, Singled Out, The Thirteen Problems, Virginia Nicholson | 2 Comments

I’ve been reading with great pleasure Virginia Nicholson’s excellent, Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War. In a chapter on the stereotype of the spinster I was interested to come across this as an example: ‘Agatha Christie’s knitting detective Miss Marple incarnated the spinster sleuth.’ Last week I was reading The […]

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