Wig My Father Wore, Anne Enright cookbooks a man she never knew

a man she never knew

A sweeping novel that takes us from the elegantly appointed mansions of Manila to the secluded private islands in the Sulu Sea

will it free her to spread her wings – or will it trap her in a gilded cage

Cormac McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines

driving its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived

Wig My Father Wore, Anne Enright cookbooks a man she never knew'It was a tough, wiry wig with plenty of personality. It rode around on his head like an animal. It was a vigorous brown. I was very fond of it as a child. I thought that it liked me back.' Anne Enright's extraordinary first novel is narrated by Grace, a TV producer, whose life is transfigured when she answers the door to a fully fledged angel. Stephen was a bridge builder in Canada before he killed himself, but now that he has come to stay with Grace