Reviews tagging 'War'

Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder

5 reviews

leanneymu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

A fascinating biography of Eileen Blair, George Orwell's first wife, who was written out of his story by subsequent biographers of Orwell, despite the fact that she did LOADS of the work to ensure that Orwell was able to write his masterpieces. I love books that restablished maligned women, and this book is a magic trick, essentially re-instating the reputation of a women who was vanished out of history by the systematic misogeny of 1930s-40s England. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Misogyny, War, Blood, Rape, and Sexual harassment

minniepauline's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Funder’s book is extremely well-researched, thoughtful and thought-provoking. She cares deeply about her subject and it comes through on every page. She writes with the beauty of a novelist, or maybe a poet. But what she has surmised (which is set apart from the rest of the text) fits well with the evidence, as well making me cry in various places. I would love to see this book make the Women’s Prize shortlist. And thank you to the Women’s Prize for putting it on your first even nonfiction longlist, which is how it fell into my hands.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Sexism, War, and Misogyny

Moderate: Sexual assault

samfictiondistilling's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Beautifully written and so informative. I will be forever grateful to Anna Funder for the work that went into this book and for the story of the other side of Orwell.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Medical content, Cancer, Infidelity, Rape, Sexism, Blood, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and War

rhi_'s review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Death, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Moderate: War, Blood, Gaslighting, Chronic illness, Sexual assault, and Abandonment

tinyoceankingdoms's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Terminal illness

Moderate: Infidelity and War

Minor: Infertility and Adult/minor relationship