Bibliofemme Bookclub An Irish Bookclub

When Scholar Yu proclaims: “All worry in life begins from learning to read and write” to the young Lily, he doesn’t realise the prophetic nature of his words. His adopted daughter, Little Flower, as she is then called, is destined to be a woman shaped by the power of the words she writes and recites. Lily, or Yu Xuanji, was a real

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The story of the life of Vita Sackville-West is as fascinating as any novel. Most famously she was the close friend and lover of Virginia Woolf. This is not merely a salacious titbit but part of the information imparted in Victoria Glendinning’s introduction to All Passion Spent. Information that lends much to the understand of Sackville-West

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This book blew me away with its relentless sense of longing, a yearning shot through with glimmers of hope that are constantly knocked back down. It’s a book about death and love (of people and place), the search for a sense of meaning in life and, perhaps most interestingly, the agonising process of writing itself.

The story is driven by an

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