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oliviazarroli 's review for:
My Phantoms
by Gwendoline Riley
This felt PERSONAL. In a (dare I say) overcrowded genre of mother daughter relationships Riley pushed a new narrative with complex characters. It’s not easy to choose who is in the right here - the daughter has her own flaws and is particularly cold, but is that a result of the years? We don’t know. The mother has her problems but it’s easy to posture reasons and life choices that have made her the way she is. All of which really articulates most mother daughter relationships outside of fiction in my experience - neither party is entirely faultless but the relationship continues in a strained manner until one party dies, I guess !
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