Hopefully CM Taylor won’t take this the wrong way, but I thought the author of Staying On must be a woman.
Partly, this was because the family-orientated thrust of the story seemed a feminine rather than a masculine theme and partly too, because in the opening pages, the authorial voice seemed to be female rather than male – don’t ask me to analyse why, that’s just the way I read it.
But the clincher was that the exploration of the inner lives of the main protagonists was…well, it’s what women writers do. Continue reading
My eldest daughter was supposed to arrive on March 21 – she didn’t, she was eight days late – so fingers crossed my new baby, also due to put in an appearance on March 21, arrives on time.
The tour runs until March 28.
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