'There are few books written by brothers about their sisters, fewer still singing their praises. But with Two Sisters, poet Blake Morrison goes some way to correcting this deficiency' John Quin reviews Blake Morrison's 'Two Sisters'
‘MY nature was…to belong to the savage tribe of brothers.” The words belong to Felix Mendelssohn, writing to his big sister Fanny, another talented composer. He rated her work but didn’t exactly over-promote her case.
Asked what he’s currently writing, one friend expresses no surprise: yet another asks if it’s “to complete the trilogy”. He’s careful to flesh out Gill, retrieve her happier times. We hear of skiing holidays in Scotland, her joy in sunbathing, and a cheery childhood before her dire experience of boarding school.
“Alcoholics are never short of justifications,” says Morrison. “Someone or something else is always to blame.” Poor Gill drinking herself to death. Poor Blake – whatever he does he’s “on the wrong side, even when I’m on her side”. He admits his writing has a mission: “to demythologise the romance of heavy drinking”.
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