Tag: female
A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast
Elaine Margolin admires the acceptance of uncertainty that is at the heart of this travel-based memoir tracing a journey around Skagen Odde peninsula …
Read moreMorgan Davies praises the original English-language debut novel by Caryl Lewis, an uplifting and tender love story which has mythic elements and a dys …
Read moreA Ray of Darkness
Pippa Marland finds in this classic female autobiography, endorsed by current international epilepsy neurologists and representing startlingly contemp …
Read morePainting the Beauty Queens Orange: Women’s Lives in the 70s
Jemma L King, a former Miss Wales finalist, is enchanted to read a prose anthology which explores a quiet revolution of rural entrepreneurship, decima …
Read moreBooks for Alien Girls: Fiction and Neurodivergence
As a young reader, I devoured books about mad girls. Fiction and memoir; all kinds of disorders. Girl, Interrupted and Prozac Nation; Wasted and Life- …
Read moreWhen the Swimming Pool Fell in the Sea
This is where the story which is a true story changes and the third person becomes an unrepentant ‘I’. Carole Coates’ When the Swimming Pool Fell in …
Read moreSolo Women Walking – So What?
Last month, a fellow writer contacted me. He found ‘the recent flowering of solo women walkers’ to be an interesting phenomenon and would appreciate m …
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