To Bed on Thursdays

TO BED ON THURSDAYS is Jenny Selby-Green’s delightful memoir of life as a newspaper reporter in the 1950s. Jenny entered the idiosyncratic world of the English provincial press by answering a ‘Sits Vac’ ad for a reporter (conveniently ignoring that they were looking for a young man). She quickly learned that being the sole female on her weekly newspaper’s staff brought few advantages. Even in the 1950s, it was a business tied up in archaic practices, driven by deadlines and a despotic edito...