Call it serendipity, but shortly after reading Barbara Pym’s Jane and Prudence, and writing my last blog post, I read another novel featuring a steamed pudding: Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers. Continue reading “Food and betrayal”
Category: The Novel
Men, women and food
Barbara Pym’s delightfully comic novel Jane and Prudence, which was published in 1953, focuses on the unlikely friendship between the two titular characters. Continue reading “Men, women and food”
Food and the making of a girl
It’s two Irish books in a row. After my last post on Donal Ryan’s 2020 novel Strange flowers, I now turn to Girl in the making, the first novel by the Irish writer, Anna Fitzgerald. Continue reading “Food and the making of a girl”
Food and belonging
In the novel Strange flowers by the Irish writer, Donal Ryan, characters struggle to fit in and feel they belong. Continue reading “Food and belonging”