Also, this is a book about the struggle, and how it is done, and what it is for. As Milan and her heroine both say, about the work of emptying the ocean with a teaspoon. I've never read a romance that was so interested in that struggle, or how a woman would make it worthwhile to do, even as its ends seem impossible.
Yeah. One of the parts that stayed with me is where - I think he says it? - they talk about the idea that it'll be decades before women get the vote, and a hundred years before there's a woman Prime Minister, and longer after that before it happens again. And of course he's right (cos it's written with the benefit of hindsight) but Freddie sticks with it anyway, it's worth it to her. And that was so striking to me. Because of course I think it was worth it, but I'm her posterity, a hundred years and more on. So much work and it took so long - is taking so long. That honesty about that (and that it's still valuable) is unusual, I think.
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Date: 2018-12-01 07:43 pm (UTC)Also, this is a book about the struggle, and how it is done, and what it is for. As Milan and her heroine both say, about the work of emptying the ocean with a teaspoon. I've never read a romance that was so interested in that struggle, or how a woman would make it worthwhile to do, even as its ends seem impossible.
Yeah. One of the parts that stayed with me is where - I think he says it? - they talk about the idea that it'll be decades before women get the vote, and a hundred years before there's a woman Prime Minister, and longer after that before it happens again. And of course he's right (cos it's written with the benefit of hindsight) but Freddie sticks with it anyway, it's worth it to her. And that was so striking to me. Because of course I think it was worth it, but I'm her posterity, a hundred years and more on. So much work and it took so long - is taking so long. That honesty about that (and that it's still valuable) is unusual, I think.