The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright

The Wren, The Wren by Anne EnrightAn incandescent novel from one of our greatest living novelists (The Times) about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women. Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the famed Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless, full of verve and wit, twenty two year old Nell leaves her mother Carmel's home to find her voice as a writer and live a life of her choosing. Carmel, too,

with a pointy hat

yet deeply nurturing flavours and meals of my childhood as a Chinese girl born in Australia

you're standing on stolen land

this daily resource of Stoic inspiration combines quotations with calls to further reflection - and action

Finlaysons 1935 classic The Red Centre_ Finlayson was the last to collect and record many of these mammal species: he witnessed this loss

It is the outbreak of violence after Indira Gandhi's death which finally causes Govinda's father to migrate to Australia - and it is the implicit lesson of this novel

and get out again - by whatever means necessary

capturing the universal yet deeply personal nature of love

'Astoundingly beautiful' Matt Haig

I want to cook it all

and left them

vicious unnimals on the hunt