Browsing the archives for the mona caird tag
Phew! Am I glad that’s over! By which, of course, I refer to my two-week reading (and therefore blogging) paralysis. It was torture. Wandering around my house, looking at all my bookshelves, it was like being in a cake shop but having absolutely no appetite. I kept picking books up, tasting a morsel, but found [...]
November 16, 2009 by Kirsty in
fiction,
personal
Tagged
adrian mole,
books,
crime,
dorothy whipple,
ian rankin,
iris murdoch,
janet frame,
mona caird,
penelope lively,
persephone,
sue townsend
Vanora herself was simply radiant… In figure she was robust, erect, pliant, firmly knit. Though her movements were so swift, there was nothing restless about her. A ground-tone of repose sounded up through the surface scintillations. She was vital, not galvanic. That was the revealing word: vital. In the human colour-spectrum, she took the place [...]