Bettie's Books

June 12. I've never known such a summer.Here is the eponymous doctor's journal on show and he is most definitely not the sort of person one would wish to have as a GP. Some of the lines are priceless with their gallow humour against all that is generally held to be humane sensibility. It's all in here, arguments and mental brooding over abortion, prostitution, snobbery, lust - no wonder it caused such a furore within hypocritical Lutheran society in Stockholm, in the early 1900's. Many chests would have been puffed up in outrage.With an introduction by Margaret Atwood.