The Names author Florence Knapp: ‘I’d love to write with Maya Angelou’s warmth’ | Books

The Names author Florence Knapp: ‘I’d love to write with Maya Angelou’s warmth’ | Books

My earliest reading memoryThe summer I was four, my mum read EB White’s Charlotte’s Web to me and my older sister. I don’t recall much of the story, only that my mum was... Read more »
The Names author Florence Knapp: ‘I’d love to write with Maya Angelou’s warmth’ | Books

The Innocents of Florence by Joseph Luzzi review – how abandoned babies spurred a flowering of Renaissance art | History books

Joseph Luzzi, a professor at Bard College in New York, is a Dante scholar whose books argue for the relevance of the great Italian art and literature of the late middle ages... Read more »
The Grim Resonance of “The Innocents of Florence”

The Grim Resonance of “The Innocents of Florence”

A slim, compelling book about one of the first orphanages in Europe contains painful echoes of the present. Source link Read more »
The Grim Resonance of “The Innocents of Florence”

The Names by Florence Knapp audiobook review – a Sliding Doors-style debut | Fiction

How influential is a name? This is the question underpinning The Names, which opens with Cora taking her newborn son to register his birth. Her abusive husband Gordon wants his son to... Read more »
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