Description: Mary has had several past lives and more than one husband – her true nature is revealed in this brilliant exploration of female desire and sexuality.
TO JEAN, MY WIFE
O body swayed to music,
O brightening glance,
How can we know
the dancer from the dance?
W B YEATS – ‘Among School Children’
Withdrawn from Norfolk Library and Information Service
Opening: Cogito ergo sum. I close my eyes and go back sixteen years. Mother Marie-Thérèse writes it on the blackboard. Her arm is bare to the elbow: the sleeve of her habit is rolled up to avoid chalk dust. ‘I think, therefore I am,’ she says.
A day in the life of a dodgy narrator strung out with PMS (paranoid manic schizophrenia?).
3* I Am Mary Dunne
4* The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
3* The Colour of Blood
