A Bit of Bibliotherapy -- Peter Leyland
A Bit of Bibliotherapy One morning last week, owing to a fault in the town’s water supply, I had to move from Coffee1 to a new establishment for my morning cup of Americano. I was reading a book called Our Spoons Came From Woolworths by Barbara Comyns. The hardships described in the book of living without much money recalled to me my early married life back in the seventies when I lived in Guildford as a young teacher. It also occurred to me that The Verdetto Lounge where I was sitting was itself a Woolworths store many years ago. The vagaries of chance and its connections are multiform. The historian David Olusoga has recently produced an excellent series of BBC programmes called Union about the union between England, Scotlan...