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Saturday, November 18, 2023

 The Wren, the Wren

by Anne Enright

W.W. Norton


    Three generations of a fascinating Irish family - Nell, the youngest, is finding her way; Carmel, her mother, is also searching for something; and Phil, their late father, a somewhat famous poet who left the family when his wife became ill. Phil said that all poetry is about unrequited love and that there is no other kind of love. The women are, many years later, coming to terms with his abandonment and discovering what love is beyond his poetry.

    This sounds dire, but it's not at all - filled with humor, beauty and poetry.


If you'd like to know more about, or own this book, please check your local independent bookstore or this great place bookshop.org . While you're there you may want to find a birds of Ireland book.

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