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A review by wendoxford
The Voice in My Ear by Frances Leviston
5.0
I absolutely loved this. It is the kind of fiction that catches you out, scraping sharp fingernails into many unspoken emotions of women (10 of them, all called Claire!) attempting to live their own version of life. All with "difficult" mothers in a variety of guises, but all very familiar. Dug up memories of a variety of uncomfortable, unacknowledged feelings in myself.
The writing is so sharp yet encapsulates a whole rainbow of interpretation/nuance. A tidal wave of angry daughters showing their "damage" through the way they are trying to live, no whiff of the anodyne. The sheen of wilful malevolence obliquely caresses each Claire as only a poet can successfully do.
The writing is so sharp yet encapsulates a whole rainbow of interpretation/nuance. A tidal wave of angry daughters showing their "damage" through the way they are trying to live, no whiff of the anodyne. The sheen of wilful malevolence obliquely caresses each Claire as only a poet can successfully do.