This is a novel in diary form from a middle class woman in her late 30s or early 40s in a local social scene. The novel is from the early 1930s, and marks this primarily through the book club selections of our narrator’s social scene and a relatively cursory interest in UK politics (blandly arguing about the prime minister). It’s novel that doesn’t have a lot of plot or conflict, but is both really insightful and incisive of middle-class life, but is also really funny […]