Tag: Winifred Peck

• Do You Clean Vegetables With Soap?

  Today’s novel was described as ‘a real oddity’ and ‘a book unlike any other’ when it was discussed on the Radio 4’s ‘A Good Read’. House-Bound, by Winifred Peck, (published by Persephone), is the second in my loosely-themed ‘housework’ quartet. The time is 1941, the place is Edinburgh, and middle-class, middle-aged Rose Fairlaw, unable to…

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  June 6, 2012

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