My Phantoms - Softcover

Riley, Gwendoline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783783273 ISBN 13: 9781783783274

Publisher: Granta Books, 2022

Synopsis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE

'What a phenomenal ear she has, and how remorselessly funny she is - My Phantoms is unmissably good' Kevin Barry, author of Night Boat to Tangier

Helen Grant has always been a mystery to her daughter. A twice-divorced mother-of-two she has sought intimacy in all the wrong places. Her daughter Bridget sees her once a year and considers the problem contained. But as she looks back over their fractious relationship, she is forced to confront cruelties inflicted on both sides.

My Phantoms is an insightful and painfully funny account of a family strained to breaking point, and a reckoning with the damage we do over the course of a life.

My Phantoms was a Book of the Year in the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, the Irish Times, the Guardian, The White Review, the Evening Standard, the Big Issue, the TLS, the Week and the New Statesman.

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.

From the Back Cover

An electric, compelling, often painfully funny portrait of family relationships, which shows the damage we can do in the course of a life.

Edition details

• Publisher: Granta Books
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783783273
• ISBN 13: 9781783783274
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208