Jill Alexander Essbaum

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Pandemic Travels From My Sofa: Walking in the Mountains of Italy, Switzerland and Austria,

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Walking is the thing that’s helped keep me sane – so far – throughout the pandemic. That and blogging with its virtual community, still there when I can’t see my other friends. I’ve resisted using the term ‘lockdown’ because, for me, that would have meant the end of the permitted daily exercise outside the house

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Hausfau by Jill Alexander Essbaum: Emma Bovary, a twenty-first century reprise

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Jill Alexander Essbaum’s debut is one of those books about which there’s been a good deal of eager anticipation in my neck of the Twitter woods. That way disappointment often lies but this twenty-first century take on Emma Bovary turns out to live up to all that’s been tweeted. Although Hausfrau is Essbaum’s first novel

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