When she is thwarted, when life is forever penny-pinching routine, she can barely bring herself to eat bread and jam. I read Flaubert’s Madame Bovary again at the beginning of this year, having moved to Paris with my partner, Andy. “How do you say: ‘freelance journalist’?” I asked the greengrocer, who helps me with vocabulary as he weighs pears and celeriac. It is an awakening I describe in The Reading Cure: How Books Restored My Appetite. The Reading Cure: How Books Restored My Appetite, by Laura Freeman, is published by W&N

Source: The Irish Times March 26, 2018 22:52 UTC