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Category Archives: English fiction
‘Can You Forgive Her?’ (No, not the Petshop Boys song…)
When the pressures of a four-day-a-week job and a psychotic cat become too much to bear, it’s nice to know you can take refuge in the classics. You usually know what you’re getting with a classic: it survived until the … Continue reading
An Instructive Lesson from Charlotte Bronte, or ‘Fina Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’
If rereading Jane Eyre has taught me anything, it’s that the cat is mad and will have to be shut in the attic. The only problem is we don’t have an attic. I went to Richard and explained to him … Continue reading
Posted in Cats, English fiction, Posts I'm proudest of
Tagged Books, Cat, insanity, Jane Eyre, lunacy, Mad woman in the attic, madness, uses for attics
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