The novel’s message – that recovering from an experience so embodied is possible – offers hope to all those with less than ideal mothers. Stoner was the first novel that gave me a book hangover with ...

This does not affect our recommendations or opinions Think of a Yorkshire cathedral city and, chances are, you will think of York, Leeds or Sheffield. Ripon probably doesn’t register – but it should.

When I was a child, my plant-obsessed parents would take my sister and me to any garden and nursery that was within reasonable distance from our home in Mill Valley, CA. One nursery we frequented, ...