{"product_id":"mutual-admiration-society-9781472154453","title":"Mutual Admiration Society","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''An enjoyable anthem to friendship'' Hephzibah Anderson, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Hugely enjoyable . . . Modern-day readers can thank the ambitious, complicated, funny, brave women of the Mutual Admiration Society'' Anna Carey, \u003ci\u003eSunday Business Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A tribute to that precious but still unsung thing: the loving bond between female friends, based on intellectual exchange and deep affection'' Charlotte Higgins, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Agatha Award for best nonfiction 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDorothy L. Sayers is now famous for her Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane detective series, but she was equally well known during her life for an essay asking ''Are Women Human?'' Women''s rights were expanding rapidly during Sayers''s lifetime; she and her friends were some of the first women to receive degrees from Oxford. Yet, as historian Mo Moulton reveals, it was clear from the many professional and personal obstacles they faced that society was \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn enjoyable anthem to friendship -- Hephzibah Anderson * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eIt is a tribute to that precious but still unsung thing: the loving bond between female friends, based on intellectual exchange and deep affection -- Charlotte Higgins * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eHugely enjoyable . . . Modern-day readers can thank the ambitious, complicated, funny, brave women of the Mutual Admiration Society -- Anna Carey * Sunday Business Post *\u003cbr\u003eRich and careful . . . [\u003ci\u003eMutual Admiration Society\u003c\/i\u003e] excavates the social and emotional context of the lives of four indomitable women with painstaking affection; it is as valuable as it is enjoyable -- Sophie Read * TES *\u003cbr\u003eWell-written and fascinating, it's equally successful as a biography and social history -- Jake Kerridge * Sunday Express *\u003cbr\u003eWritten with humour and insight, this is the fascinating group biography of Dorothy Sayers and five friends who formed a writing group at Somerville College Oxford in 1912 . . . This fine celebration of female friendship and early feminism reflects how far we have travelled since the post-Edwardian era * The Lady *\u003cbr\u003eA blend of group biography and social history, \u003ci\u003eMutual Admiration Society\u003c\/i\u003e tells a quintessentially English story -- Francis Wilson * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eMo Moulton shows [Dorothy L.] Sayers setting out in \u003ci\u003eGaudy Night\u003c\/i\u003e, her most psychologically astute and least conventional novel, to present her own philosophy of women's intrinsic intellectual equality . . . Moulton's book sheds new light on Sayers's evolution as a writer, showing how some of her best work occurred in collaboration with her friend Muriel St. Clare Byrne * The New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003eThis lively, rigorous, and surprising history of Dorothy L. Sayers and her circle is a clear-eyed, optimistic look at a particularly critical stage in the evolution of feminism * Kristen Roupenian, author of Cat Person And Other Stories *\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeeply researched, beautifully written\u003c\/p\u003e -- Nicole Chung, author of All You Can Ever Know","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739404611927,"sku":"9781472154453","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781472154453.jpg?v=1720052146","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mutual-admiration-society-9781472154453","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}