Hags by Victoria Smith drink and began to be woken

and began to be woken early by traffic

he needs to summon all his inner strength and courage to get back to a place of safety

At once an intimate portrait of one man's life and an expansive exploration of the beginning of the twentieth century

Mozart is both wide-ranging and intimate in its exploration of a genius in his life and his setting: a man who rose from a particular time and place

----- Yesterday October 4th

Hags by Victoria Smith drink and began to be wokenWhat is about women in their forties and beyond that seems to enrage almost everyone? In the last few years, as identity politics have taken hold, middle aged women have found themselves talked and written about as morally inferior beings: the face of bigotry, entitlement and selfishness, to be ignored, pitied or abused. In Hags, Victoria Smith asks why these women are treated with such active disdain. Each chapter takes a different theme care work,