Keep Calm
Rosemary Hill: Desperate Housewives, 24 May 2007
Can Any Mother Help Me? Fifty Years of Friendship through a Secret Magazine
by Jenna Bailey.
Faber, 330 pp., £16.99, March 2007,978 0 571 23313 7 Show More
by Jenna Bailey.
Faber, 330 pp., £16.99, March 2007,
“... experiences than ever before. ‘Since Christmas,’ Accidia wrote in 1955, ‘we calculate that John has spoken to over four hundred people – I to about four, and those would be the dustman, fishman, policeman and the woman from one of the Harewood Estate lodges.’ The life of the postwar married woman, diminished and degraded as it was, was whipped up ... ”