A contributor to
The Beacon has some 'Recommendations to save your literary journey from social media fads':
Finally, it wouldn’t be a critique of BookTok if we didn’t address the copious thrillers. So as I close out this piece, I’ll leave us with the over-hyped recent thriller trilogy, “The Housemaid” by Freida McFadden.
McFadden permeates the subgenre, especially with this novel that narrates ex-criminal Millie’s new job as a housemaid for a wickedly wealthy couple with secrets of their own. And while I didn’t mind “The Housemaid” for all its twists and turns, I can’t help but feel like “the madwoman in the attic” is one of the most overused paradigms.
If you’re seeking that supernatural eeriness, you’ll find it in the origin of the trope, “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë. Mysterious voices in the attic, disturbing ghostly movements, female hysteria. Other classics like “Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier or “Wide Sargasso Sea” by Jean Rhys, and even contemporary tales like “The Wife Upstairs” by Rachel Hawkins found inspiration from Brontë’s brilliant gothic story. (Kaylee Monahan)
BBC News marks the centenary of Mary Webb's best known novel, Precious Bane.
Her work sold in America, receiving praise in the New York Times, which wrote: "With the publication of Precious Bane, a substantial readership came to respect Mary Webb’s quiet genius; and it is for this country classic that she has been remembered ever since.
It added: "When she died at the age of 46, literature lost a voice that promised to speak for Shropshire as poignantly as Thomas Hardy had spoken for Wessex and Emily Bronte for Yorkshire." (Joanne Writtle)
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