Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye.

When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy

Why I have it: Spotted on a Women’s Prize list years ago.

Summary: Seduced by politics and poetry, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor and agrees to be his wife, but what for her is a contract of love is for him a contract of ownership. As he sets about reducing her to his idealised version of a kept woman, bullying her out of her life as an academic, she attempts to push back.

I’m thinking: Yes.

The Company She Keeps by Mary McCarthy

Why I have it: because I enjoyed The Group.

Summary: A portrait of a 1930s New York social circle based loosely on the McCarthy’s own life. The book follows a young bohemian woman, Margaret Sargent, through her experiences and lost loves in a time of coming war.

I’m thinking: Yes.

Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell

Why I have it: Not sure.

Summary: Helen is 32-years-old, single, childless and college-educated. She’s accepting a delivery from IKEA when her uncle calls to break the news: Helen’s adoptive brother is dead. According to the internet, there are six possible reasons why her brother might have killed himself, but Helen knows better and is intent on discovering why.

I’m thinking: Yes.