The most common serious pregnancy complication arises due to an ancient conflict between mothers and fathers. Itcould have ended badly in so many ways. My friend, let’s call her Amy, in vibrant mid-twenties health, could not have been more ready…
Over the last few evenings, I inhaled Robert Harris‘ novelisation of France’s infamous Dreyfus affair. Told from the point of view of Colonel Georges Picquart, the intelligence officer whose scrupulous honesty finally established Dreyfus’ innocence, An Officer and a Spy…