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And Cora Sandel's Krane's Cafe (1946, tr. Elizabeth Rokkan). A woman in a small Norwegian town, who has been ground down by poverty and the demands of others, reaches breaking point and scandalises the town.
Cover of The Women's Press edition of Cora Sandel's Krane's Cafe, showing an illustration by Gill Day of two women cleaning the tables of an empty cafe, with a village and mountains visible out of two windows. Epigraph page of Cora Sandel's Krane's Cafe. "If people can see that you're suffering, you're finished" - Agnes Mowinckel. "Poverty is terrible. Of all so-called misfortunes, it's the one that affects you most deeply internally" - Hjalmar Söderberg
January 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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A couple of highlights: Nina Bawden's A Woman of My Age (1967). A vivid and often brutal novella of a middle-aged woman looking back on her life and marriage, while on a disastrous holiday in Morocco.
Cover of a Virago Modern Classics edition of A Woman of My Age by Nina Bawden, featuring a painting of the back of a nude woman sitting on a red cushion ("The Red Cushion" by Dorothy Cadman).
January 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM