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BOOKS Re-education Kate Kellaway’s book Re-education. She gave up a well-paid job as a journalist to retrain as a teacher in her 50s. Have you ever thought of throwing in your job and having a complete change of direction? Re-educated: How I changed my job, my home, my husband and my hair: Amazon.co.uk: Kellaway, Lucy: 9781529108002: Books The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker In a retelling of one of the great stories of antiquity, Pat Barker’s book The Silence of the Girls recounts the Greek tale of Homer’s Illiad from the perspective of the Trojan’s captured women slaves. In an infectious moment towards the end of the novel, two concubines contemplate the absurdity of Ajax saying silence becomes a woman. It is a saying which they have been brought up on, but which suddenly prompts them to dissolve into laughter... “after that moment of shared laughter we were friends”. Pat Barker shows compassion for the female and male characters caught up by the ideals of imperial Athens; an empire built on the back of slaves; extolling the virtues of courage and honour and the ideal of woman, as silent. As Sophocles says, “a modest silence is a woman’s crown.”
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But by the same token, she subverts those ideals, which have a distinctly contemporary resonance, through the hiccuping laughter of the women.
Right Honourable Vivien Rose, Justice of the Supreme Court of the UK will give one of the Gresham College lectures, What Makes a Good Judge? Tickets are available in person and online. What Makes a Good Judge? (gresham.ac.uk) Hey Legal This is a refreshing multi-media resource which holds online events and publishes on YouTube. It is primarily aimed at the Scottish legal community but some of its content is of much wider application, from wellbeing to marketing issues, for example, what lawyers can learn from high-performing athletes, should lawyers use TikTok and so on. Hey Legal (heylegal-news.co.uk) ■
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