Betty Herbert

Betty Herbert’s new book, The 52 Seductions, is released this week, and has just been reviewed on Night and Day by the author Christina Hopkinson. We’re delighted to publish a special Spotify Sunday selection from Betty herself — one channeled through her two protagonists, Betty and Herbert, aka her and her husband. Here it is:

One summer holiday, bored and 11 years old, I embarked on a trawl through the wardrobes in my Grandparents’ spare bedroom. Most of the discoveries were unpromising: an old coat, a great quantity of pillowslips, and my mother’s teenage collection of Elvis 45s, which at that time were below my condescension. But then, in the