Monday 11th July

Today I visited the library and got out 'The Swimming Pool Library' by Alan Hollighurst. At first I was worried because both 'The Swimming Pool Library' and 'The Line of Beauty' are both written by Alan Hollinghurt and this may cause a problem for my EPQ (and my comparative essay) but the novels were written in 1988 and 2004 so were written 16 years apart. It will be an interesting slant on my project to compare how homosexuality is portrayed in both novels and to see if opinions of the general public (reflected through reaction of other characters in the novel) or the attitude novelist changed greatly from the Eighty's to the new Millennium.