Monday 27th June

Today I met with my English teacher and she helped me finalise the ideas for my project, instead of comparing two books as I originally intended she suggested that I compare 4 books spanning the whole of the 20th Century. She suggest that Maurice by E.M. Forster and The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst were both good starting points, but she pointed out that one was written at the start of the century (1913-14) and the other was written at the end of the period (2004) so I should include some books from the middle of the period. The other two books that I want to include in my project are Radcliffe by David Storey (1963) and The Swimming Pool Library also by Alan Hollinghurst (1988) which would mean that I have 4 books that span the whole period. I visited the library to get the two new books and although they had Radcliffe, they didn’t have The Swimming Pool Library, so they are going to but me a copy by the end of next week.