Celebrate the joys of personal freedom with these three books:
1. A Room Of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf. Shakespeare’s imaginary sister needs a fixed income and a room of her own to be able to create.
2. How To Be Good, Nick Hornby. Here’s what happens when a woman discovers she has become the kind of person who’d call her husband from a car park in Leeds to tell him she wants a divorce.
3. S, John Updike. The story of a WASP who runs away to an ashram. Unlike Eat, Pray, Love, the journey of Sarah Worth (“S”) — which is told through letters to her husband, daughter, bankers, friends and others — shouldn’t make you queasy.
