The Lives Of Women
Christine Dwyer Hickey
The Lives Of Women
Christine Dwyer Hickey
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English
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Description
The Lives of Women deals with the savagery of respectability, betrayal, and the desperation that ensues when a sixteen-year-old girl gets pregnant and feels she has no one to help her, apart from her friends.
"Christine Dwyer Hickey's The Lives of Women mines the chasm between adults and teenagers, and exposes the narcissism and cruelty that lie behind the respectable front of suburban life."
"Dwyer Hickey is excellent on the flat horizons and banal twitterings of the suburbs…[she] writes with quiet power about the devastation of lives circumscribed by habit, fear and ignorance."
"Dwyer Hickey has done a fantastic job of honing in on that dangerous, delicate time between adolescence and adulthood. The terrifying truth in her novel is that it can all go so wrong so quickly when teenage emotions are left to run unchecked. A well-written and engaging novel."
"Christine Dwyer Hickey's writing is both flowing and elegant."
"The book’s genre is hard to pin down. It is cast in two periods more than 30 years apart, and reads like a closely observed novel of manners – then and now. But since ...the sinister is never far from the surface of her prose, The Lives of Women reads at times like a suburban gothic and at others could be mistaken for a straight-up murder mystery."
Christine Dwyer Hickey is a multi-award-winning novelist and short story writer, teacher, and member of the Irish Arts Academy and Aosdána. Her novel The Cold Eye of Heaven won the Irish Novel of the Year award in 2012, and Tatty (2005) was named one of the Fifty Irish Books of the Decade. She divides her time between Ireland and Italy.