Being a fan of May Sarton’s journals, I was looking forward to reading another of her novels – The Magnificent Spinster. Big disappointment; it has not aged well and I saw little point to it. Strange to discover that an admired author has feet of clay and the odd failure.
Other reading material is the latest Inspector Rebus novel and another autobiographical account of the London tube bombings. One Unknown: A Powerful Account of Survival and One Woman’s Inspirational Journey to a New Life by Gill Hicks. A different and very personal perspective about one person’s individual fight after such trauma.