BOOK CLUB
ONE: LIVING AS ONE AND LOVING IT
Victoria Alexander, Murdoch Books, $59.99
es. Yes. Yes. Living solo isn’t selfish. It’s often the kindest thing you can do to the planet. Alexander was a fashion editor at so she’s certainly not a solitary eccentric riding a hobby horse. She’s been ‘six’, ‘five’ ‘four’ ‘three’ and ‘two’ before ‘one’. Let your first encounter with this glorious volume be pictures only. Ideas. Possibilities. Then start digging into the wisdom. We firstborns know the trauma of a usurper butting into our world but at least we had that cherished own-zone for a while. Are you at all surprised that 21 of the first 23 astronauts were firstborns and the other two had no siblings? Subconsciously or consciously, ones travel beyond the humdrum. Alexander doesn’t give any captions, just the
