The Book Depository My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley
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Description: My Phantoms : Paperback : Granta Books : 9781783783274 : 1783783273 : 05 May 2022 : An electric, compelling, often painfully funny portrait of family relationships, which shows the damage we can do in the course of a life. The Book Depository My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9781783783274
MPN: 1783783273
GTIN: 9781783783274
Author: Scaramouse
Rating: 5
Review: Take an average, contemporary British family, as seen by Gwendoline Riley: between the members there is a barely suppressed irritation; a failure - or perhaps even a refusal - to communicate honestly; a desire by each to be more or less left alone by the others; an avoidance of displays of feeling and emotion, other than through commentary about people outside the family. The only common language is popular culture. The only common ground is distance. Some distinguished reviewers seemed to find the book "funny"; I found it unremittingly bitter, inconsolably sad, unspeakably true. This is our modern Britain, a land of brisk disregard, of dismissal, of indifference - all sugared over with the white icing of superficially acceptable behaviour. There is no celebration, no joy, no sense of the sublime. We have been reduced, stunted, humiliated, cheated. No one is at fault, or we all are. This is truth; this is devastation. Brilliant - and, for this reader at least, profoundly upsetting.
Author: jackieo
Rating: 2
Review: Not keen this story. Felt bored as if I was stuck with somebody I didn't want to be with, but couldn't get away from. It's a dysfunctional relationship between mother and daughter with neither particularly at fault as they are both so self centred and shallow. Left me feeling tainted by their sad relationship and I was relieved to finish it. Thankfully it was a short and quick read. Not sure what the point of it was.
