Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy: Motherhood and the feeling of alienation from the adult world
In this searing examination of the toll motherhood can take on a woman, Claire Kilroy joins the illustrious company of authors like Anne Enright and Elizabeth Strout
Gift for plot: Claire Kilroy
Joanne Hayden
Claire Kilroy’s first novel in a decade is both a love letter to a young child and a searing, savagely comic indictment of the “gender segregation” of parenting. Intensely domestic and intensely political, it’s also queasily compulsive, the dailiness of its subject matter rendered ominous and dystopian.
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Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy: Motherhood and the feeling of alienation from the adult world