An Unravelling Av Elske Rahill

''Rahill is a stylist of the highest calibre... Molly''s voice has a lilting brogue that sings from the page. Rahill''s prose is alive with inventive phrasings and imagistic virtuosity, especially in its presentation of the intimate experience of the fleshly body ¿ the maternal body, the cruelly waning body, the body tormented by a conflicted and unravelling mind. I''ve seldom read a novel so rich in poetry'' GUARDIAN. Molly is now in her eighties and she helps her grand-daughters Cara and Freya bring up their young children with unstinting care. Hers has been a life of unselfpitying service, from her working-class Dublin girlhood to her current status as the wealthy widow of a famous artist. But her own children, particularly her daughter Eileen, are her life''s great failure: unhappy, self-indulgent women who resent the younger generation''s apparent freedom from guilt and their unconventional family arrangements. This intricate web of female relationships comes under terrible strain

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