Books and bikes and cats and biscuits. Charles Dickens. Tweets about teaching and The Archers. English teacher and school librarian. That is all.
Middlemarch. I simply didn't understand it when I was a student! But I know a bit more about why people make unsuitable marriages and the desire to do 'good works' and leave a legacy now I am in my mid-40s. So the story is much more relatable.