Anne Fine’s Fly in the Ointment takes me quickly through the life of Lois, whose son is dead after a lengthy stint of heroin use and whose husband has left her without saying goodbye. Indifferent to the dull, unpleasant husband and grieving for her son, Lois interrupts her second life of solitude and simple pleasures ...
As you look out of your hotel window across the sea-side town, you smile nervously at your girlfriend. “What do you think?” you ask, taking her hand. Only instead of her hand you take a stylus and poke at a screen. Your girlfriend is a Love Plus+ character but your vacation with her is real. ...
Some people are so lonely that they make up fictional social lives to tell their colleagues about. This is the picture the paper choose to illustrate the story. But seriously, why does The Times, a proper broadsheet that would like to think of itself as the paper of record, need bare breasts in their pages? ...
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
