Don’t judge a book midway through

I’ve just finished reading the novel which prompted my recent rant about marriage, and I’m really pleased to say I was wrong – the plot did not go the way I thought, and the author actually had the characters wrestling with the issues of marriage and fidelity, not just getting up and leaving for someone [...]

for better or…?

I’m part-way through a novel by a writer I really like, but… Pausing for a moment out of the enjoyment of a pleasant, non-demanding romantic novel, here’s what disturbs me about it: Two of the main characters in this novel are people who are unhappily married, it seems very obvious to me [though I may [...]

Selfishly, I chose to pay more

Shopping was a very straightforward affair when I was a kid. There was a row of shops opposite our house and that’s where we bought most things. We bought food from the grocer, the butcher and the greengrocer. Stationery for school came from the shop that sold toys and stationery. I remember there being a [...]