![]() ![]() ![]() The book basically charts Mrs Bridge’s married life - her wedding, motherhood, middle-age and then widowhood - in short, but beautifully controlled and sensitively written, chapters (some of them are only a page long). Yet there’s something about the simplicity of the story and its depiction of universal truths that makes it especially appealing. Connell’s Mrs Bridge is one of those delightful books that is a joy to read from start to finish.įirst published in 1959 and set largely before the Second World War, it is not a conventional book by any stretch of the imagination - indeed, it breaks every rule in the novel-writing book: there’s no real plot, the structure is episodic, the female character is nice but bland, and the setting is purely domestic. ![]() Fiction – paperback Penguin Modern Classics 187 pages 2012.Įvan S. ![]()
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