Autumn 2018. A young woman starts a job as a research assistant at Oxford. But she can't shake the feeling that real life is happening elsewhere.
Eight months later she finds herself in London. She's landed a temp contract at a society magazine and is paying £80 a week to sleep on a stranger's sofa. As the summer rolls on, tensions with her flatmate escalate. She is overworked and underpaid, spends her free time calculating the increasing austerity in England through the rising cost of Freddos.
The prospects of a permanent job seem increasingly unlikely, until she finally asks herself: is it time to give up?
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My first experience of the house was shuttling boxes through the front door.
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(@vintagebooks, 8 July 2021, e-book, 193 pages, borrowed from @GlasgowLib via @BorrowBox)
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I borrowed Three Rooms on impulse, not knowing anything about the book or author. This wasn't a terrible book but I honestly didn't think much of it one way or another. The book is thin on plot and I like a good plot. I also struggled to connect with the character as her life and experiences are vastly different from my own. Sometimes this is a good thing when you're reading a book but in this case I just felt very meh reading it. I found it a dull read overall.
