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lifeinsherds's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
This is one of those books I wish I could read for the first time again. I remember deciding to read this book because of the gorgeous cover and I haven't read a lot of Irish fiction. This novel absolutely blew me away. It's a quiet little book that makes such massive and important statements about the expectations of motherhood and growing up from a protagonist who is looking back on her own past. She further relates her own past and present limitations (and small joys) with those of an Irish poet who lived centuries before her.
Part memoir, part historical fiction, this book stunned me with every chapter. There is not one thing I would have wanted different from this book. And this is the author's prose debut!
Part memoir, part historical fiction, this book stunned me with every chapter. There is not one thing I would have wanted different from this book. And this is the author's prose debut!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief and Pregnancy
Moderate: Cancer and Child death
Minor: Death, Violence, and Suicide attempt
cereads's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Violence, Grief, Death, Murder, and Pregnancy
Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt
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