Lady Oracle
Author: Margaret Atwood
I planned my death carefully; unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it … At first I thought I’d managed it.’From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband – Joan Foster is utterly confused by her life of multiple identities. She decides to es….Read More
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