In news that has me clutching The Oxford Book of English Verse to my chest in horror, it turns out the number of students picking humanities degrees has fallen off a cliff, with numbers down 40,000 in the last decade.
Oooh thanks! I’ve only read The End of the Affair and A Little Life (which made me cry so much I was still weeping on the tube days after I’d finished reading it - not sure why I’ve bought tickets for the stage show…)
Assume you’ve read these (/could check your goodreads but obviously can’t be bothered):
Small things like these
A little life
The constant gardener
The quiet American
The end of the affair
Oooh thanks! I’ve only read The End of the Affair and A Little Life (which made me cry so much I was still weeping on the tube days after I’d finished reading it - not sure why I’ve bought tickets for the stage show…)
Yeah I saw that. Will it work? Will I actually want to see it?? So many questions
Don’t worry, I’ll probably write an incredibly profound newsletter about it
I will be disappointed if not