An unravelling
Rahill, Elske, 1982-2019
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A novel about four generations of women and the violent tensions and loving devotion, envy and self-sacrifice that family life embodies. Molly is now in her nineties, and she helps her grand-daughters Cara and Freya bring up their young children with unstinting care. Hers has been a life of unselfpitying service, from her working-class Dublin girlhood to her current status as the wealthy widow of a famous artist. But her own children, particularly her daughter Eileen, are her life's great failure: unhappy, self-indulgent women who resent the younger generation's apparent freedom from guilt and their unconventional family arrangements. This intricate web of female relationships comes under terrible strain when Molly, her health sapped by her constant efforts on behalf of others, decides to consult the family solicitor about changing her will.
Main title:
An unravelling / Elske Rahill.
Author:
Rahill, Elske, 1982-, author
Imprint:
London : Head of Zeus, 2019.
Collation:
484 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781786691002 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.92FICTIONGEN
Language:
English
BRN:
84706