Unkind by Victoria Smith

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Partway through this and loving it, even better than Hags.

The section on pregnancy is what I've always felt but expressed so brilliantly.

Well done Glosswitch!

Has anyone else read it?

Oh I haven't! Didn't realise it was out. She's a fab writer. I'll go have a look for it.

I've just downloaded the audio book and will listen on the way to work this morning. For anyone searching it on Audible, you need to look for (Un)kind with the brackets. Just plain 'Unkind' doesn't bring back results.

Oh that's a good spot!

I got it on Audible and I am loving it.
She doesn't hold punches: female spaces, pornography, surrogacy, she talks about all.
It is very satisfying, at this point in my life (middle age) see someone put in print things I felt, things that affected my whole life but was I always gaslighted and told to be kind, be nice and don't make a fuss.

Exactly how I feel

I finished reading this last week. It is extremely good, and I'd definitely recommend it to others. In places (particularly the first couple of chapters) it's a more difficult read than Hags, and I had to concentrate harder on what she was saying. But otherwise a great read.

I'm in the process of reading it, I was struck down with a terrible head cold, so it's interfered with my reading and everything else.

It's already had an impact on me though, someone in work mentioned something which happen to someone else which I didn't think deserved any sympathy, so I gave a negative response. When I was scolded for not being kind I asked why they excepted me to be, was it because I was a women, and therefore I had to been sympathetic, because that doesn't fly with me anymore.

It's the new me, or it could just be the cold talking.

I've finished.

The chapter "kindness lessons for modern girls" blew me away. Just captured so well
How we are expected not to trust our own sense of self, doubt and ignore our own instincts, abandon our boundaries in the name of kindness towards men.

"Boundaries are for bigots" was similarly mind blowing.

Brilliantly written.