I have started Middlemarch before but somehow never progressed far. I had a big old preconceived idea that it was about marriages and society teas. My goodness how wrong I was. Middlemarch needs and deserves so much more than my brief gibberish here.

I guess in a nutshell the book is about grand aspirations and what happens when life doesn’t give the context or capacity to achieve those dizzy heights. What can we aspire to when reality isn’t the stuff of dreams. Maybe it is up to us recognise accomplishments and how to live our best lives around our aims and reality. It is sometimes the small things and the ordinary everyday acts that make the difference to the world. Really though, that doesn’t touch the surface of the themes in Middlemarch.

The final paragraph is very