Virginia Ironside

Virginia Ironside’s diary: Fifty Shades is a story of redemption (but I still won’t watch it)

Plus: why I can’t have an Afro

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All this fuss about Fifty Shades of Grey! I wonder how many people have actually read all three books? Sado-masochism is only half the story. When you’ve waded through the entire oeuvre, if such appalling writing can be dignified with that term, you discover that the whole story is one of redemption.

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