Ohhh - I wish she'd come down here!
There was once an excellent secondhand bookshop around the corner, next to the also excellent opshop. And then the sodding mall opened, with a supermarket so they're sadly long gone now.
I think I still have Nevil Shute's Trustee from the toolroom somewhere, & recently re read Helen Forrester's Twopence to cross the Mersey series about dire poverty growing up in Liverpool.
I'm presently re reading Pigs in heaven, sequel to The bean trees, by Barbara Kingsolver an American writer who unlike most, doesn't shy away from some of the uglier aspects of American life & that country's nastier habits of interfering in the affairs of other countries even when Americans are involved, & their past treatment of Native Americans.
There was once an excellent secondhand bookshop around the corner, next to the also excellent opshop. And then the sodding mall opened, with a supermarket so they're sadly long gone now.
I think I still have Nevil Shute's Trustee from the toolroom somewhere, & recently re read Helen Forrester's Twopence to cross the Mersey series about dire poverty growing up in Liverpool.
I'm presently re reading Pigs in heaven, sequel to The bean trees, by Barbara Kingsolver an American writer who unlike most, doesn't shy away from some of the uglier aspects of American life & that country's nastier habits of interfering in the affairs of other countries even when Americans are involved, & their past treatment of Native Americans.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)