Claire McGlasson Selects 5 Books That Influenced The Writing Of The Misadventures Of Margaret Finch
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Claire McGlasson Selects 5 Books That Influenced The Writing Of The Misadventures Of Margaret Finch
By Faber
Between the Acts
Virginia Woolf
£7.99 £7.59Even the title tells a story. A novel about the performance of a village pageant, staged between the horrors of the two world wars. It’s an exercise in tone and subtext.
The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain
Juliet Gardiner
£18.99 £18.04A weighty volume that comprehensively considers political, economic and social aspects of Britain in a decade often overshadowed by the events either side of it. Harold Davidson, the Rector of Stiffkey, gets a notable mention.
The Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell
£8.99 £8.54Mention Wigan, the town where I was born, and most people’s first thought the land-locked pier. Orwell is unflinching in his descriptions of his travels in the industrial North; an early example of what we might think of as poverty porn.
Transcription
Kate Atkinson
£9.99 £9.49Partly set in a similar era to The Misadventures… and with observation at its heart, Transcription explores many of the same themes. Multi-layered and masterful.