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Gwendoline Riley
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Helen et Bridget. La mère (Helen) est une énigme aux yeux de la fille (Bridget). Divorcée deux fois, elle a enduré une existence émaillée de déceptions et d'empêchements. Acerbe, cassante, elle se complaît dans la cruauté. Du moins, c'est ainsi que la voit Bridget.
Mais que sait-on vraiment de Bridget ? N'est-elle pas plus semblable à sa mère qu'elle ne le pense ? Ne se livre-t-elle pas au même jeu de dupes, singeant la dureté pour masquer sa sensibilité ?
Mes fantômes est le roman d'un amour singulier et bouleversant, celui qui lie deux femmes férocement attachées l'une à l'autre. -
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE
'What a phenomenal ear she has, and how remorselessly funny she is - My Phantoms is unmissably good' Kevin Barry, author of Night Boat to Tangier
Helen Grant has always been a mystery to her daughter. A twice-divorced mother-of-two she has sought intimacy in all the wrong places. Her daughter Bridget sees her once a year and considers the problem contained. But as she looks back over their fractious relationship, she is forced to confront cruelties inflicted on both sides.
My Phantoms is an insightful and painfully funny account of a family strained to breaking point, and a reckoning with the damage we do over the course of a life.
My Phantoms was a Book of the Year in the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, the Irish Times, the Guardian, The White Review, the Evening Standard, the Big Issue, the TLS, the Week and the New Statesman. -
Neve is a writer in her mid-30s married to an older man, Edwyn. For now they are in a place of relative peace, but their past battles have left scars. Drawing the reader into the battleground of her relationship, Neve spins a story of an ongoing conflict in which both husband and wife have played a part. But is this, nonetheless, also a story of love?
