![]() However, underneath the playful style, readers are witnessing Anna’s search for her personal, political and professional identity while suffering a mental breakdown. The Golden Notebook has a fascinating writing style, switching between each of the four notebooks that protagonist Anna Wulf writes in, and a narrative titled Free Woman. Beryl Bainbridge incorporated a lot of dark humour while writing about the life of two factory workers, giving readers a glimpse into the world where women were treated abysmally in the workplace. Nominated for the Booker Prize in 1974, The Bottle Factory Outing is another title in the Abacus Decades celebration with a new foreword by Amanda Craig. The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge The stream of consciousness writing style might be slightly harder to understand, but Emily’s vivid portrayal of this community of diverse women makes it all worth it. The Shutter of Snow is inspired by Emily Holmes Coleman’s own experience in a psychiatric ward. The Shutter of Snow by Emily Holmes ColemanĬlaire-Louise Bennett gave a moving and powerful introduction to the story: “Marthe Gail is told to shut up twenty-five times in the following story”. ![]() Though Old Filth’s wife did not make a big appearance in Old Filth, his mother will definitely make a strong impression on readers. Jane Gardam later published two more books in this story, making Old Filth a trilogy. FILTH stands for “Failed in London Try Hong Kong”(, which I totally didn’t know and I grew up in Hong Kong so it was definitely another bonus for me personally…). Mrs Caliban, while telling the love story between a housewife and a frogman, explores gender roles and women’s mental health in a patriarch society.Īnother title from Abacus Decades celebration list with a new foreword by Nina Stibbe, Old Filth is a classic that was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2005. The new foreword by Irenosen Okojie explains the allures of Mrs Caliban - it is packed with imagination that will have you questioning the line between reality and fantasy. In the new foreword, Margo Jefferson challenges readers to ask themselves the same question Gwendolyn Brooks poses in the book: “What, what am I to do with all of this life?” ![]() But rather a full novella, Maud Martha is a collage of poetic stories that tells of an ordinary black woman’s life in the 1940s and 1950s. Maud Martha is poet Gwendolyn Brooks’s first and only novel.
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