“In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf wrote of the necessity of writing that covers all aspects of our lives, and of women, in particular, making the subject of what they know an honourable and serious one: ‘I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial’. Where are these books now, that hesitate at ‘no subject however trivial’? Despite the burgeoning interest in houses, gardens and cooking on television, in non-fiction and a certain kind of popular novel, in literature it seems we continue to gloss over the significance of home.”