The Wren, the Wren

Title: The Wren, the Wren Author: Anne Enright ISBN: 9781324076032 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Published: 2024 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Fiction 1646880 Publisher Description: Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves her mother Carmel's orderly home to find her own voice as a writer (mostly online, ghost-blogging for an influencer) and to live a poetical life. As she chases obsessive love, damage, and transcendence, in Dublin and beyond, her grandfather's poetry seems to guide her home. Nell's mother, Carmel McDaragh, knows the magic of her Daddo's poetry too well--the kind of magic that makes women in their nighties slip outside for a kiss and then elope, as her mother Terry had