Synopsis
Ruthie s academic success has been Mrs. B s pride and joy, but as the novel begins, she and her husband Charles are on their way to the airport to collect their daughter who has had a nervous breakdown after an affair with a married professor.
Loosely inspired by Flaubert s Madame Bovary, Mrs. B focuses on the life of an upper middle-class family in contemporary Trinidad, who have, in response to the island s crime and violence, retreated to a gated community. Mrs. B (she hates the name of Butcher) is fast approaching fifty and her daughter Ruthie s return from university and the state of her marriage provoke her to some unaccustomed self-reflection. Like Flaubert s heroine Mrs. B s desires are often tied to the expectations of her social circle.
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw writes with wit, with brutal honesty and with warmth for her characters, but the novel questions how far the Butcher clan s love of Trinidad as place their hedonistic pleasure in their holiday houses down the islands can carry them towards a deeper engagement with their fellow but less privileged islanders.
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About the Author
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw is a Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Literatures in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.
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