Actress by Anne Enright

Actress by Anne Enright'Written with all the ingenuity and twisty tautness of a thriller' The Times From the Booker winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths. This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O'Dell, as told by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London's West End. Katherine's life is a

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drug addicts

a delicate Upper East Side housewife reeling from the death of her son

and how they speak and celebrate

as he begins to discover what has led her to this point

We put one foot in front of the other without thinking - yet how many of us know how we do that

one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape

becoming unstable

It finds a value and specialness in them that is not immediately apparent and prompts the idea that maybe we could learn from the people that we overlook in life

a beguiling romantic hero who tells her on date one that he's going to marry her