What We’re Listening To: April 2019 Picks
One of the things I love most about my work here as an acquisitions editor is that I get to read and listen to a wide range of books. Read more
Posts by: Louise Quayle
The Voices of The Mothers
The Mothers is a brilliantly imagined story about two friends in a black community in Southern California and the impact on their lives of the choices they made when they were seventeen.
The Ballroom is a Seamlessly Woven Story
The early years of the 20th century marked a time of tremendous social change: a war like nothing anyone had experienced was about to break out across Europe, women would soon agitate for and win the right to vote, the medical breakthroughs of penicillin and a vaccine for tuberculosis were just around the corner. It was the dawn of the modern era. Yet as the setting and incidents in The Ballroom reveal, the mental health profession was in a dark age, and a long way from understanding the plight of women and the poor.