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The Wren, the Wren

The Wren, the Wren

Literary FictionWomen's Fiction
Pages
288
Published
2023
Language
English

Synopsis

Nell McDaragh is a young writer in Dublin, restless and searching for her own voice while ghost-blogging for an influencer. She is the granddaughter of the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh, a man whose love poems feel intimate yet whose real-life abandonment of his family left deep scars. As Nell navigates her own life, her mother, Carmel, struggles to reconcile the public image of the poet with the father who deserted them. This story follows three generations of McDaragh women as they confront the legacy of poetic wonder and the painful reality of abandonment.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

MelancholicReflectiveEmotionalComplex
Family SagaComing of AgeBetrayal

Genres

Literary Fiction Women's Fiction

About the author

A
Anne Enright

Anne Enright (born 11 October 1962) is an Irish novelist and short story writer, born in Dublin. She studied English and philosophy at Trinity College Dublin and creative writing at the University of East Anglia, and worked for six years as a television producer and director at RTÉ before turning to writing full time. Her 2007 novel The Gathering won the Booker Prize. In 2015 she was named Ireland's inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction, a position she held until 2018. She teaches creative writin...

Characters

Nell McDaraghProtagonist
Carmel McDaraghProtagonist
Phil McDaraghAntagonist
Terry McDaraghSupporting
All characters in The Wren, the Wren