Unconquered Peaks

After the half term holidays, I hope you are all feeling rested. If like me you stayed at home, I hope you enjoyed some of the awesome places London has to offer. But if not, fear not, as help is at hand as I present you my helpful (and entirely unbiased) guide to your local(ish) London museums.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s, published in 1958, is a story of an unnamed narrator’s encounter with the untamed, beautiful and heart-breaking Holly Golightly, who throughout the story is trying to find herself a place to belong. It is not a romantic story, and Holly does not find her home with the narrator, whom she calls Fred after her beloved brother (evidencing their platonic – but I think a little idolising, on his side, relationship) as she frequently states that she does not want to ‘belong’ to anyone. I don’t really think that by the end of the story she has found a home in the normal sense of the word, but maybe that state of change and movement is her real home – her very elusiveness is what makes her grounded.