Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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Valentine’s Love Songs: The Enduring Appeal of the One and Only Robyn Hitchcock
A short post, courtesy of a friend’s request to “explain the appeal of Robyn Hitchcock.” We listened to a livestream concert together and he’s baffled that this is my daily writing music, for a dark academia novel-jeremiad. My fixation is so profound that I can’t work on this project without the accompaniment of RH, courtesy…
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Wuthering Heights and Charlotte Brontë’s Unrequited Passion
“Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you–haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe–I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always–take any form–drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!…
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“I’m no Captain Wentworth”: P.D. James’s Dalgliesh in Love
The Murder Room is one of my favourite P.D. James mysteries, although many other readers are less rapturous. Kirkus Reviews complained about “a plot less ineluctable than her best” but praises the intriguing cast of characters and–as always in James–the extraordinary sense of place. The novel is set largely at the Dupayne Museum, which explores…
