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A hostile mother-daughter relationship stands at the center of this astonishing, blackly humorous novel by the acclaimed author of First Love.
Helen Grant is a mystery to her daughter. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong places, a twice-divorced mother of two now living alone surrounded by her memories, Helen—known to her acquaintances as “Hen”—has always haunted Bridget.
Now, Bridget is an academic in her forties. She sees Helen once a year and considers the problem to be contained. As she looks back on their tumultuous relationship—the performances and small deceptions—she tries to reckon with the cruelties inflicted on both sides. But when Helen makes it clear that she wants more, it seems an old struggle will have to be replayed.
From the prize-winning author of First Love, My Phantoms is a bold, heart-stopping portrayal of a failed familial bond, which brings humor, subtlety, and new life to the difficult terrain of mothers and daughters.
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“Full of awkward, perfunctory dinners with family members, pointless rehashed arguments with lovers, and stunted catch-ups with old friends long outgrown. Improbably, they are also laugh-out-loud funny.”
— Vulture
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“A precise and bleak-humored portrait of the phantoms that can haunt a family.”
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“In all its horrible, funny, uncomfortable truthfulness, it feels increasingly like a complicated act of love.”
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“Riley misses nothing, and her icy evocations of dysfunction and distress are unforgettable.”
— Times Literary Supplement (London) -
“The dialogue is superb, yet you are aware of the gap between what is being said and what’s really going on…These struggling individuals feel so agonizingly real you can’t look away.”
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“Riley’s bitter precision, replete with dark humor, offers perhaps more reality than our saccharine culture wishes to contend with, and…[which] illuminates, with such nuance, what life is like.”
— Harper’s
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A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
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About Gwendoline Riley
Gwendoline Riley is an English writer born in London. Her novel First Love won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Literature, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Gordon Burn Prize. In 2018, the London Times Literary Supplement named her one of the twenty best British and Irish novelists working today.
About Hannah Curtis
Hannah Curtis is an actress known for her appearances in The Shadow, Hollyoaks, and The Heavy. She graduated from Elmhurst School of Performing Arts and is involved with organizations such as the Actors Center in London and the Howard Fine Acting Studio in Los Angeles.