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    Feb 26, 2020 3 minutes
    Edited by JULIET RIEDEN

    Literary fiction

    Actress by Anne Enright, Jonathan Cape

    Almost everything about famous Irish actress Katherine O’Dell was fake. She wasn’t Irish, her name wasn’t O’Dell, her titian hair wasn’t red, but she did love her only child, Norah, who in turn adored her mum. That reciprocal love, though, is far from blind and Norah retells her mother’s life, cracks and all. Katherine and Norah’s world unfolds in a whirlpool of stories in this lyrical, bitingly witty, ponderous and engrossing novel from brilliant Irish novelist Anne Enright. It

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