David Trembath
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Not so much quirky as badly written and poorly directed. The protagonist Dove is one-dimensional and the other main characters seem to have drifted in from another show. A tedious plot with more holes than a fishing net. Some nice shots of Cork but not enough to warrant turning it on.
Altogether a waste of time and energy. Nice seeing Mrs Doyle in a cameo.
Bodkin
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Review·7mo
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Remarkably poor. Very light on evidence, repetitiously high on speculation. Sets out to prove a very dated thesis by hyperbole. I would recommend reading a proper biography of Eileen and I'm sorry about Ms Funder's dissatisfaction with her life but she could do something about it not write a book.
It is curious but perhaps revealing that my edition of Wifedom (Penguin 2023) does not include a single full face portrait of Eileen O'Shaughnessy (Eileen Orwell). We quite literally have no idea what she looked like. On the other hand we have a beautiful colour photograph of Anna Funder as a poised princess of literature. Freud said there were no such things as accidents.
Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
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Review·8mo
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