My Phantoms - Hardcover

Riley, Gwendoline

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1783783265 ISBN 13: 9781783783267

Publisher: Granta Books, 2021

Synopsis

Helen Grant is a mystery to her daughter. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong places; a twice-divorced mother-of-two now living alone surrounded by her memories, Helen (known to her acquaintances as 'Hen') has always haunted Bridget. Now, Bridget is an academic in her forties. She sees Helen once a year, and considers the problem to be contained. As she looks back on their tumultuous relationship - the performances and small deceptions - she tries to reckon with the cruelties inflicted on both sides. But when Helen makes it clear that she wants more, it seems an old struggle will have to be replayed. From the prize-winning author of First Love, My Phantoms is a bold, heart-stopping portrayal of a failed familial bond, which brings humour, subtlety and new life to the difficult terrain of mothers and daughters.

About this title

About the Author

Gwendoline Riley is the author of The Palm House, My Phantoms, which was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, and First Love, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Literature, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize, and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, as well as Cold Water, Sick Notes, Joshua Spassky and Opposed Positions. In 2018, the Times Literary Supplement named her as one of the twenty best British and Irish novelists working today.

Edition details

• Publisher: Granta Books
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783783265
• ISBN 13: 9781783783267
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208