I’m not mad for historical fiction but have read the book-group-big-hitters, such as Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks and more recently, The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell. I enjoyed these books but it doesn’t mean that authors of historical fiction are on my automatic-read list. Grief memoirs, however… hello automatic-read list.

Geraldine Brooks’s memoir, Memorial Days, describes two periods of time – firstly, Memorial Day 2019, when Brooks received a phone call to inform her that her husband, author Tony Horwitz, had collapsed and died on a footpath in Washington. Continue reading →