boredom
A Nordic Fawlty Towers: Vaim Hotel, by Jon Fosse, reviewed
What could have induced our unnamed protagonist to stay in a rundown hotel with a forbidding manageress in a bleak coastal Norwegian town?
She’s leaving home: Breakdown, by Cathy Sweeney, reviewed
One ordinary November day in Dublin, without forethought or planning, a woman walks out on her husband and two teenage children and never comes back
Too close to home
Life in a comfortable modern flat with her husband and two young sons leaves Natsumi so depressed she thinks she’s losing her mind
On a beach with no phone signal, I rediscovered the wonder of boredom
After an hour’s beach work I was just about done. I’d read some book, I’d skimmed the papers, I’d eaten…
