Penguin Vogelkind

Anne Enright's best novel to date about two women and their journey to self-discovery. The young Irishwoman Nell earns her living writing travel reports about places she has never been. For Nell has imagination, and writing is her life. She has never met her grandfather, the famous poet Phil McDaragh, but his verses speak to her intensely. Nell's mother, Carmel, is also well acquainted with these verses. For a long time, she has struggled in vain to reconcile the image of the poet and his poetry with her memories of her father. Now it is up to Nell to fight for the reconciliation that her mother was denied. Tenderly and truthfully, Anne Enright tells in her moving family novel about inherited wounds and the comforting power of poetry. A magnificent novel. Sally Rooney.