Book description
Annie Freud’s award-winning first collection,
The Best Man That Ever Was
, introduced readers to a remarkably versatile new voice; The Mirabelles
delivers a similarly exhilarating cornucopia - the Mask of Temporary
Madness, Marc Almond, mini-novels a sonnet long, Carottes Vichy, and the
most gripping account of a billiard game you’ll ever read. However, in a
new sequence derived from family letters, Freud has invented almost a
new kind of writing: neither ‘found’ nor ‘made’ in the conventional
sense, these poems are profoundly moving, and startling in their boldly
unfashionable lack of irony.
Elsewhere The Mirabelles
is full of the world-stuff - the clothes and food, the art and social
intrigues - with which we dress and conceal our deeper emotions and
appetites. In the end, this is a book about reality and its
representations, and the truth and lies we tell about ourselves. Annie
Freud studied English and European Literature at the University of
Warwick. Her first collection The Best Man That Ever Was
received the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award. She is a tutor in poetry
writing and lives in Dorset with her husband.
