hard questions at the Herald

It’s Liam Phelan here, standing in for editor Bevan Shields, who is on leave. This week I have started reading the wonderful Wifedom, a book about George Orwell’s wife Eileen O’Shaughnessy and her overlooked place in history.

Written by Sydney writer Anna Funder, Wifedom does a lot more than shine some much-needed light on a wonderful individual and her significant contribution on many levels to the works of Orwell – it also uses her situation to take a fresh look at patriarchy and…