The Long-Winded Lady

The Long-Winded Ladyby Maeve Brennan with an introduction by Sinad Gleeson published 25 January 2024 It was a weekday, an ordinary morning, business hours drawing near, but the evanescent appearance of the square said that anything might be about to happen an operetta, a harlequinade, a pantomime, a fantasy In these delightful, melancholy prose sketches Maeve Brennan goes in pursuit of the ordinary, taking us on a tour of the cheap hotels, unassuming restaurants, and

And what would it mean to reject the notion that a house should be a commodity

from a voice long overlooked

by Max Lury

But before long

this book traces Rakha’s intellectual and spiritual transformations across three decades alongside significant moments in history

a small (in fact not so small) masterpiece

I suspect few of us will emerge unchanged

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Brennan turns her anatomist’s eye to the resentment

What do you expect from yourself

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