D J-Taylor

Doomed to disillusion

The Forgotten Waltz is one of those densely recapitulative novels that seek to interpret emotional crack-up from the angle of its ground-down aftermath.

  • The Forgotten Waltz

    Anne Enright

    Cape, pp. 240

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