Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder

7 reviews

baratheonbooks's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Blood

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

labiblidelucie's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Sexism, Terminal illness, and Blood

Moderate: Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Grief, and Sexual harassment

kirstym25's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Chronic illness, Infertility, and Rape

larafrances's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Infertility, Infidelity, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

samfictiondistilling's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Beautifully written and so informative. I will be forever grateful to Anna Funder for the work that went into this book and for the story of the other side of Orwell.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Infidelity, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, and War

rhi_'s review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Medical content

Moderate: Chronic illness, Sexual assault, Blood, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and War

nanc_282's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

4.0

It’s difficult to read this book and not think about all the literary men and the unacknowledged work of the women in their lives, Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Shelley,
Who listen, edited, organised a household to create space for men to write. For me, the real success of this book, is to look at the life of Eileen Blair and consider how her ‘Wifedom’ under pinned George Orwell’s literary career. 
It’s impossible not to have to reconsider Orwell’s legacy in view of what this book reveals.
Anna Funder’s autoethnographic sections are excellent.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Misogyny, Medical content, and Abandonment

Moderate: Chronic illness, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, and Blood