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Book review: Anne Enright’s light touch makes pure poetry of The Wren, The Wren
Latest novel exploring family relationships may be even better than her Booker Prize-winning The Gathering
Families, to paraphrase Philip Larkin, mess you up. The Wren, The Wren isn’t the first time Anne Enright has mined the seam of relations with relations. Her Booker Prize-scooping novel The Gathering also involved a woman chipping away at the past – but this volume might just be the better book.
Ostensibly, The Wren, The Wren concerns the relationship between mother Carmel and daughter Nell. In fact, it’s really about the aftermath of lauded poet ...
