My Reading Life: May 2026
May was the month in which I decided to part company with Angela Thirkell and her Barsetshire Chronicles series. I know she's much loved by readers for her humorous depiction of English village life between the wars. But they're not to my taste. There are thirty books in…
May was the month in which I decided to part company with Angela Thirkell and her Barsetshire Chronicles series. I know she's much loved by readers for her humorous depiction of English village life between the wars. But they're not to my taste. There are thirty books in this series.I read the first one — High Rising — ten years ago and thought then, that would be my first and last.
