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A review by lakecake
Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade
4.0
I won a copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways.
This is an excellent portrait of five women and the time they spent in the Mecklenberg Square neighborhood of London at various times between the World Wars. Thorough, well-researched and excellently written, it remains easy to read because the focus is relatively narrow. The interweaving of these women's lives is fascinating, and the central theme of their time at Mecklenberg Square (some of them even lived in the same apartment, just years apart) is an amazing thread holding it all together. Wade does an excellent job of making the women come to life. Many of us are already familiar with Virginia Woolf and Dorothy L. Sayers, but the other women here prove just as fascinating to me and I can't wait to now go out and research them more fully. I found this to be an amazing portrait of life in London spanning World War I and World War II and what that time period was like for women, particularly those looking to blaze a new trail. Highly recommend.
This is an excellent portrait of five women and the time they spent in the Mecklenberg Square neighborhood of London at various times between the World Wars. Thorough, well-researched and excellently written, it remains easy to read because the focus is relatively narrow. The interweaving of these women's lives is fascinating, and the central theme of their time at Mecklenberg Square (some of them even lived in the same apartment, just years apart) is an amazing thread holding it all together. Wade does an excellent job of making the women come to life. Many of us are already familiar with Virginia Woolf and Dorothy L. Sayers, but the other women here prove just as fascinating to me and I can't wait to now go out and research them more fully. I found this to be an amazing portrait of life in London spanning World War I and World War II and what that time period was like for women, particularly those looking to blaze a new trail. Highly recommend.