This is an early, actually very early novel by the writer AS Byatt. She was only about 30 when she wrote this, and it’s about two sisters, a writer and a literary critic, who find themselves reconnected in their late 30s after a few years apart because of the various circumstances of their lives. Julia, the writer, is looking for inspiration for her new novel, one in which she wished to greatly interrogate the interorities of domestic space. Her sister, Cassandra, has found herself invited […]