Actress - Anne Enright
Back before I had even read any of her work, I nonetheless had the impression, mainly based on the accounts of The Gathering , that Anne Enright wrote mainly about women and difficult family situations. Despite the acclaim and awards, that didn't strike me as a subject that I would find interesting and when I finally got around to reading The Green Road it turned out to be a mostly accurate view of her typical subject matter but it was also clearly just a brilliant piece of writing. Having got past the inaccurate impression of it being an off-putting subject then, Actress seemed a more approachable book. A fictional account of a writer's memories of her mother, a once famous Irish actress who caused a scandal at the end of her carer by shooting a film producer in the foot, it seems again like the familiar territory of women in difficult family relationship, but in the hands of Anne Enright it's also much more than that. The story focusses on this as a central point, as if...