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baratheonbooks's review against another edition
emotional
informative
sad
slow-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness and Blood
Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment
labiblidelucie's review against another edition
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Sexism, Terminal illness, and Blood
Moderate: Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Grief, and Sexual harassment
leanneymu's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
A fascinating biography of Eileen Blair, George Orwell's first wife, who was written out of his story by subsequent biographers of Orwell, despite the fact that she did LOADS of the work to ensure that Orwell was able to write his masterpieces. I love books that restablished maligned women, and this book is a magic trick, essentially re-instating the reputation of a women who was vanished out of history by the systematic misogeny of 1930s-40s England.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Blood, Sexual harassment, and War
samfictiondistilling's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
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inspiring
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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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Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Infidelity, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, and War