Yesterday we had a day trip to Rudston in the East Riding. It was not wheelchair friendly, but I'm glad we went. #Yorkshire #EastRiding #WinifredHoltby #Holderness #Monolith #NormanChurch

#7Books

1. The Secret Garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett
2. Things Fall Apart. Chinua Achebe
3. La Peste. Albert Camus. (Atheism, mostly)
4. South Riding. Winifred Holtby
5. Le otto montagne (The Eight Mountains). Paolo Cognetti
6. Go. Went. Gone. Jenny Erpenbeck
7. Honeymoon. Malachi Whitaker

#FrancesHodgsonBurnett #ChinuaAchebe #AlbertCamus #WinifredHoltby #PaoloCognetti #JennyErpenbeck #MalachiWhitaker

What a quote from (unmarried, childless) Winifred Holt on the demands of a partner and family:

"We have to choose between barren ease and rich unrest."

It's true for me - life's draining but I will miss this stage when it's gone.

Link to the #Guardian article on the letters between #WinifredHoltby and #VeraBrittain

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/10/between-friends-review-the-letters-of-vera-brittain-and-winifred-holtby

'If people can be divided, roughly speaking, into drains and radiators, then [Vera] Brittain is the former, still complaining about her highly privileged lot even as her dearest pal struggles with the illness that will shortly kill her. [Winifred] Holtby, on the other hand, is the latter: warm, encouraging, ever-optimistic.'

Between Friends: Letters of #VeraBrittain and #WinifredHoltby, ed. Elaine and English Showalter. Virago (£25)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/04/between-friends-letters-of-vera-brittain-and-winifred-holtby-review-a-strange-sisterhood