Marie NDiaye. 2008 (2012). Three Strong Women (MacLehose)

Patriarchy’s brutality. A father, ‘implacable and terrifying’ (37). A husband’s interior horror show with the ‘unending discomfort of a cold, monotonous dream’ (95). A woman with a ‘confined foggy, numbing’ pain that explodes into agony (259). Nothing about this book is easy.

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Sue Hall Pyke

Writer, dreamer, co-learner