📚 🚶Emily's Walking Book Club Book Review: 📕 Mrs Bridge by Evan S. Connell

[@noodleperson17]

I am so pleased you, Emily, are bringing this book to a wider audience. It is one of my all-time favourites - so funny, so sad, so true and so beautifully written.

[@emilyrhodeswriter]

Oh thanks you. It is all of those things! I keep on thinking about moments in it and fearing for the Mrs Bridge in me!!

[@JanetHeaney]

I adored this book and was sad to reach the end. Mrs Bridge is trapped in the straitjacket of societal expectations of that time and yet shows odd glimpses of trying to break free, such as her short lived attempts to learn Spanish and picking books off the shelves to read , only to be disturbed and forced to return to her domestic life. I wondered whether to read Mr Bridge, but fear it may not be so enjoyable. Thank you for bringing this book to my attention!

[@emilyrhodeswriter]

@@JanetHeaney so glad you loved the book. Yes the near-attempts to escape make it very painful! Thanks Janet.