LET’S TALK ABOUT BOOKS BABY, LET’S GO FROM A TO Z!
Best Sequel Ever
Well this really is difficult isn’t it. We don’t ask people to choose favourite children! At the moment I am belatedly in the throws of Ferrante fever, I adored ‘The Story of a New Name’, I thought that the characters really developed depth in this sequel and the claustrophobia of living in such a small town was beautifully contrasted with the taste of freedom Elena was given. The circumstances of young women at that time had me biting my fist in anger and I felt like Ferrante herself would have been smashing the keyboard in these moments to vent her own frustrations, you could feel her rage bubbling beneath the text. As a little side note, I don’t see a ‘prequel’ part anywhere on here and this somehow lets me wedge another book in, so for that I will say ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’, for opening my eyes and making me realise that I had been totally negligent when thinking of poor Bertha, not considering her story at all and accepting Mr Rochester at his word. My feminist eyes were awoken and Jean Rhys did so with prose that felt fresh yet still made the text work with that of Charlotte’s (my mate, no need for second names here!)
