The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey Wolverine River, Alaska, 1920. Jack and Mabel, a childless couple in their middle age, have moved to a homestead in the Alaskan wilderness to start a new life and try to bury the grief they have carried for years. As the book opens, it seems as though Mabel at least …
Beware of Pity, Stefan Zweig Before we get to the contents of the book, it must be said that the recent Pushkin Press edition is a satisfying object, reassuringly chunky with a nice clear font and an invitingly smooth cover. The cover blurb (where did this need for celebrity guidance spring from?) informs us that …
For our meeting on Wed 7 March, we read Girl Reading by Katie Ward. Jacket Synopsis: An orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena, and an artist’s servant girl in seventeenth-century Amsterdam snatches a moment away from her work to lose herself in tales of knights and battles. In a Victorian photography …