Holiday Reading 1: City of Friends

One of the odd things about writing the Paula Principle was how hard it was to find contemporary novels which made women and work anything like their central theme.  My better read friends put their heads together, but most of their examples of fiction that covered this were of books from earlier times.  So I was able to include Middlemarch from the C19 and Dorothy Whipple's High Wages from the 1930s, but later examples didn't come easily. One of my holiday books was Joanna Trollope's City of Friends.   I can't remember whether it was a friend or a reviewer who recommended it, but I had it down on my to-read list and spotted it in a…
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