The author's intricate eighth novel probes what happens we choose to make art from real life
’s intricate eighth novel, that man is the poet Phil McDaragh. He abandoned the family’s Dublin home after his wife, Terry, became ill. He sent divorce proceedings from the United States, and remarried a woman hardly older than his first daughter. Over the following decades, his youngest daughter, Carmel, and then her daughter, Nell, live in his shadow.
It’s then that Carmel begins to see the contradictions that filled her father’s life. The people who line the streets “in their anoraks and tweed caps” are people Phil “had scorned in verse”. After his mother died, he never returned to his hometown, embedding himself instead in an intellectual lifestyle in the city. Yet these people claim him as one of their own. Their affection, Carmel realises, is entirely one-sided.
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