Hints and tips:
...Megan Cusack, a barrister whose chambers were filled almost to the ceiling with water, said she did not have contents insurance....
...The show begins at the story’s end, with Cusack’s Lenù walking on to an empty stage and into the open space of memory....
...Irish fiction seems to swarm with bold newcomers, many of them women, from McInerney to Sara Baume, Mary Costello, Eimear McBride and Sally Rooney....
...Mary is convinced that if she can just get Mommo to reach the conclusion of her tale, all three of them will be able to move on....
...Mary, it occurs to you, could end up in a Magdalene Laundry, were it not for Juno’s resilience....
...It was founded by Cistercians in the 13th century and is now evocatively isolated in its silent valley but those monks knew what they were doing when they dedicated it to Holy Mary of the Fertile Rock....
...Catherine Cusack’s Mary is serene and graceful, yet understandably bitter at the cruel hand she has been dealt, while Siobhan Redmond delivers an outstanding performance as the reigning Queen....
...John Cusack played Berendt in the film of Midnight. But brittly polite Ralph Fiennes might be a closer match....
...The cover featured a bull with a diagram of butcher's cuts labelled “Jack Grubman, Frank Quattrone, Mary Meeker, Henry Blodget and me!” superimposed....
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