May’s Featured Author
I wanted it to be E. H. Young but I can’t find any pictures of her. I’m mentioning her here so you can think about reading her, especially her prize-winning novel Miss Mole.
Instead I’m featuring Celia Fremlin who wrote a mystery about a new mother. In The Hours Before Dawn, Louise Henderson is the exhausted mother to a crying, sleepless baby and two little girls. I read it for the first time when Noah was a toddler and the description of sleeplessness absolutely resonated with me. I also thought her take on 1960s domesticity was pretty funny. In short, it’s a great housewife story and a fun mystery.
I couldn’t find an interview quote so I used a bit from the book instead.
Please do feature E.H. Young. You can find her picture by doing a Google search. I wish more people were acquainted with her novels, especially Miss Mole, which I regard as the best of them all. Did you know that she is now known to have lived with her married lover and his wife? Has little to do with what she wrote about, except now that I know that I’d like to go back and relisten to the subtext about marriage in many of her novels.