Elizabeth Woodcraft
Auteur van Good Bad Woman
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The best thing about the book as far as I'm concerned is central character Frankie, barrister, feminist, lesbian, housework-hater and wearer of black linen trousers. Reassuringly human, rather scatty and prone to offering to do things for her friends and then forgetting, she has a tremendously wry sense of humour and it is impossible not to like her. The insight into the world of the barrister with its arcane traditions is fascinating too.
On the debit side, I was often confused as to whose side we were supposed to be on, and career criminal Danny seemed a little too suave and erudite for a guy who has spent most of his life in the nick. I think it would be fair to say that Frankie gets herself into a career-threatening mess of her own free will, and I sometimes found her actions difficult to sympathise with. I wondered whether it would have worked if the central character was a straight male barrister - would we have accepted his brain being turned to mush by a tarty blonde? I thought possibly not, so is it OK if the central character is a lesbian? Not being one it's hard for me to comment, but it felt a tiny bit sexist - something even Frankie herself may have disapproved of!… (meer)