From Booker-prize winning author Anne Enri ght\, an astonishing novel about the love between mother and daughter--som etimes fierce\, often painful\, but always transcendent. "Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other\; one life into another lif e\, and the baby knew exactly how alone her mother had been." Nell--funny\ , brave and so much loved--is a young woman with adventure on her mind. As she sets out into the world\, she finds her family history hard to escape . For her mother\, Carmel\, Nell's leaving home opens a space in her heart \, where the turmoil of a lifetime begins to churn. And across the generat ions falls the long shadow of Carmel's famous father\, an Irish poet of be autiful words and brutal actions. In this penetrating and beautifully writ ten novel\, Anne Enright luminously brings to life the essence of what mak es a family survive the vicissitudes of life. The Wren\, the Wren is a med itation on love: spiritual\, romantic\, darkly sexual\, or genetic. A gene rational saga that traces the inheritance not just of trauma but also of w onder\, it is a testament to the glorious resilience of women\, by one of the greatest living writers of our age.
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