Muttering a line of Donne or Chaucer or Plath, I then descend the ladder, reading in a professorial tone, and eventually hand the book to my friend, as if he asked for it. This fantasy is not mine ...

23 books to read this summer. May 26, 2023 ... Fiction | This lush thriller swings back and forth through time and up and down the social ladder, from the hovels to the palaces of contemporary India.

Books were my ladder, but I realise now, before that, they were a home. As though each book was a brick that I made myself a safe, secure shelter from a domestic life and outside world that often ...

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