What Fiction are you reading this week, September 12, 2021?

[hermetic]

9. That one's lost on me

Never a big Austen reader.

One question: what's a Boot? I know it's a car part but in the story we have several references to that as some sort of occupation, I think. The husband also sleeps in a room they call the boot. I was wondering if that was like what we call a mud room, a place where you leave off your wet shoes before coming into the house.

Also, I don't think there is a saint called Sody. Googled it and got nothing. That's no big deal, of course, but it did make me curious.