An equal music

I have just started reading An Equal Music, by Vikram Seth. I am greatly enjoying it so far. As soon as he started, in
Hyde Park, my mind settled right into it. I love that setting, reminding me of the first time I lived in
London for an extended period, in Shepherd’s Bush, on the Central Line. [...]

The Jane Austen Book Club

“Sylvia thought how all parents wanted an impossible life for their children – happy beginning, happy middle, happy ending. No plot of any kind. What uninteresting people would result if parents got their way.” (p178)“ ‘I guess I think we all deserve more than we earn,’ said Sylvia, ‘if that makes any sense. I’d like [...]

Does my head look big in this?

I’ve read about 2/3 of Does my head look big in this? It is about being a young Australian Muslim female who wants to be all three of those components of her identity and be accepted as equally able to be all of them at once. The range of characters and responses to Amal’s decision [...]