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Malarky

by Anakana Schofield (Goodreads Author)

3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 · rating details · 101 ratings · 26 reviews

WINNER OF THE AMAZON.CA FIRST NOVEL AWARD, 2012
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE
A NEW STATESMAN READ-ALL-ABOUT-IT SELECTION FOR 2012
A BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER GREAT NEW WRITERS PICK, 2012
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Published April 3rd 2012 by Biblioasis

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Aug 03, 2012 Tan rated it 4 of 5 stars

I picked this book up because of the good reviews I saw and heard from others, I rarely (almost never) buy a paperback book, especially a debut novel. But I did, and I think I made a good move.

This is a hard book to rate. It took me a relatively long time to finish a book of this length - due to the style, slang, etc. For this, I want to rate it 1 star, but. I am so amazed by the characters in this book, how real they are, as if they are people I've known, or people being copied from my brain be...more

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Feb 27, 2013 Melinda rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: book-groups

Initially when I read this book, it bothered me. It was uncomfortable. It felt dismal. It was almost too real. These are real characters. They feel like "real people" Not glamorized characters that appeal to a movie set. These characters are "regular" people with some surprises. Our Woman has courage but she is also tragic in her loneliness, and her striving to make sense of it. In this way, she is not typical at all. I initially gave this book two stars, because it is not a book I "enjoyed". It...more Initially when I read this book, it bothered me. It was uncomfortable. It felt dismal. It was almost too real. These are real characters. They feel like "real people" Not glamorized characters that appeal to a movie set. These characters are "regular" people with some surprises. Our Woman has courage but she is also tragic in her loneliness, and her striving to make sense of it. In this way, she is not typical at all. I initially gave this book two stars, because it is not a book I "enjoyed". It was "uncomfortable" and left me feeling depressed; however, it was masterfully written, artful, thoughful, creative, and intelligently orchestrated. It deserves more than two-three stars, for its art and its heart; however, at this point in my life, I did not love it..only because of the complexity of how it made me feel. (that makes it a very good book in that sense) --just not one that I "enjoyed" at this point. It certainly struck cords enough in me, though, to even write a review! My reaction, I expect may evolve later and I may alter this review yet again.

(earlier reactions below):

This is an initial review of a gut reaction I had to the book. I did not like the main character or her husband or her son. I thought it was a bit "icky" I understand the protagonist was going against the grain of what was expected of her and she was surprising in the way her mind worked and that she was not entirely in her right mind. Still, most of the time I was reading this book I felt like I was wasting my time. This book was doing nothing for me in any good way at all. I did not even enjoy reading it. Perhaps I did not "get it"..but I didn't really even want to "get it" because the characters were so blah to me.

(later) after a book discussion: I figured out why this book bothered me. I like books generally that have a heroine that comes out of the adversity empowered somehow. Books where the protagonist is stuck and barely find insight leave me feeling disheartened. This protagonist is quirky, daring, rebellious, unconventional in her pain, but she is still stuck at the end..and it seems she was perhaps quite disillusioned. It is unclear that she views her own reality clearly. I do find myself doubting her interpretation of her reality, which I am sure I am supposed to doubt. I feel empathy for her, because she is so lonely, but I feel pity for her for she seems to me to be so lost. This must have been a very difficult book to write. creating these characters does not seem simple at all. the point of view and complex literary conventions are quite remarkable. It is just not a story I enjoyed reading and I walked away feeling let down.

Later February review: I think I was unfair rating this book so negatively.. It is a book that needs to be digested and can feel uncomfortable. It is sad. It is very emotional, but it is real too. It is not a light read. It made me feel sad. I did not LOVE the book so I can't rate it highly, but it was definitely not a bad book. It is very well written and it brings awareness to a life struggle that I am sure is very real to many people. I think I just wanted a book with a happier ending at the time I was reading it. I wanted more hope. I didn't want to think about life being that dismal for anyone. (that is where my discomfort came from)(less)

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Anakana Schofield Dear Melinda,

Thank you so much for reading Malarky.

I particularly enjoyed learning that you had a discussion about the book and interrogated what both...more
Feb 05, 2013 10:21pm

Melinda wow,I am awed that you responded to my review! ( I just saw that you responded just today) thanks for reading it. I'm sorry that I gave it such a nega...more
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Anakana Schofield Oh I appreciate my readers very much Melinda and always try to respond.

It's interesting to hear you digesting Malarky and pondering Our Woman further...more
Mar 03, 2013 08:44pm

May 28, 2012 Kelly rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: firstreads

Anakana Schofield's debut novel is a beautifully crafted exploration of grief, age, family, and sexuality. The story begins almost at the end, with Our Woman recently widowed. The narrator moves back and forth in time to piece together the story of the loss of her husband and son. As the story is drawn out, she discovers her husband's infidelities and her son's sexuality, and deals with it by taking a lover. Though she goes about it in an unusual way, she comes into her own just as she's being o...more

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Nov 01, 2012 Shanna Germain rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: nanolomo-books

There are those who want their grief, their life, their love, served up on a pristine plate with a proper napkin.

If you are one of those people, this book is not for you.

If, however, you are someone who understands that life is messy, that being a woman and a mother is never clean, that we humans are a beautiful and filthy bunch, then Malarky is the kind of book you will read once, then read again, then buy for everyone you know and love. Half of those people will look at you like you're insane...more

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Oct 15, 2012 christa rated it 3 of 5 stars

In the first episode, Our Woman is newly widowed and also has a freshly dead son. She’s meeting with a counselor referred to as Grief. She’s having dreams, Our Woman confesses. Naked men having at each other. Grief’s response: Clean the kitchen floor. The next best thing, turn to God.

Ankana Schofield’s debut novel “Malarky” is told in 20 non-chronological periods of change in Our Woman’s life. She’s living in rural Ireland and married to a chilly, awful, maybe attractive man who counts on her f...more In the first episode, Our Woman is newly widowed and also has a freshly dead son. She’s meeting with a counselor referred to as Grief. She’s having dreams, Our Woman confesses. Naked men having at each other. Grief’s response: Clean the kitchen floor. The next best thing, turn to God.

Ankana Schofield’s debut novel “Malarky” is told in 20 non-chronological periods of change in Our Woman’s life. She’s living in rural Ireland and married to a chilly, awful, maybe attractive man who counts on her for his creature comforts and the occasional screw. They have three children: Two girls that are barely mentioned and Our Woman’s pride, Jimmy, who she has seen getting all up in a neighbor boy down by the barn. This is not information that is going to sit well with Our Woman’s husband and she she asks him to keep it quiet. The realization that he is gay coincides with Our Woman getting intercepted by a woman, Red the Twit, who tells her she was sleeping with Our Woman’s husband but now she’s gone religious.

Then everything changes. Our Woman is shaken from complacency and begins a quest for experiences that match those of her husband and son. She finds a stranger to engage in an awkward one-night stand, considering her husband and Red the Twit and how this bumbly fumbly matches what they have done. She spends time at the library studying places she’s never been -- like Syria. She meets a young security guard and begins a slow seduction that will lead up to recreating the different romantic episodes she has seen Jimmy engaged in. Meanwhile, Our Woman’s husband has stopped funding Jimmy’s schooling and their son comes home to stay for awhile before jetting off to the United States to join the Army and eventually go to Afghanistan and eventually die.

This is a complicatedly woven story led by an unreliable narrator whose vision of herself doesn’t always sync to the ways others see her -- especially her husband and a gaggle of girlfriends -- or even the way a reader sees her as the perspective shifts from first to third person and back again. The third-person view of the revelation of her son’s homosexuality is chillier than the the oozing affection she maintains for him in first person. Red the Twit describes her husband in a way that is opposites-ville from the way Our Woman sees him. And the scenes from a hospital are a constant contradiction between what is jotted in her file and how she remembers the events unfolding.

Considering Our Woman spends so much time reeling about confused and sick with grief and mentally clouded, this book is darkly funny. In a scene with the card salesman, her first dalliance with infidelity, she goes back to his room and begins stripping and it all catches him off guard.

“He commented on the remaining bits of clothes on her, that’s a good quality skirt, rather than the body she’d unwrapped. He then remarked, somewhat absently, he’d been thinking of going on a day trip to Wales. Had she ever been to Wales?”

Schofield is one of those writer-writers and colorful sentences that flip from funny to heavy seem to come naturally to her. She’s really captured the layers of a woman who has conflicting emotions about the series of events she’s faced. This puzzle of a plot must have been a bugger to sort through and arrange. (less)

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Jul 09, 2012 Kerry Clare rated it 5 of 5 stars

If Hagar Shipley met Stella Gibbons, the end result might be Anakana Schofield’s Malarky, but then again, it probably wouldn’t be, because Malarky refuses to be what you think it is. And moreover, it probably wouldn’t be because the book is meant to be chock-a-block with allusions to James Joyce and Thomas Hardy. Don’t tell anybody, but I still haven’t read Ulysses (and hence the Gibbons instead of the primary sources), but I have read Malarky, and it was brilliant, which I know for certain even...more If Hagar Shipley met Stella Gibbons, the end result might be Anakana Schofield’s Malarky, but then again, it probably wouldn’t be, because Malarky refuses to be what you think it is. And moreover, it probably wouldn’t be because the book is meant to be chock-a-block with allusions to James Joyce and Thomas Hardy. Don’t tell anybody, but I still haven’t read Ulysses (and hence the Gibbons instead of the primary sources), but I have read Malarky, and it was brilliant, which I know for certain even with the burden of my literary ignorance. And that I can pronounce a book as wonderful even whilst unable to access its higher planes of greatness is certainly saying something for the book itself, which is mostly, “You’ll like it too.”

Schofield’s heroine, Our Woman, if she can be summed up at all, will be summed up with the explanation she gives for the period of despair she suffered after the birth of her first child: “Then I had a cup of tea and six weeks later, I felt better.” There is so much that goes unspoken of, silences to be filled with the rudiments of life as a farming wife, of motherhood, of friendship with her gang of local women (“…not a day passed when several of them didn’t meet. They were like tight ligaments in each other’s life, contracting, extending and sustaining the muscle of each other, house to house, tongue to ear”).

The bottom falls out, however, when she discovers her son up to unmentionable things with the neighbour’s boy. Our Woman’s stress is compounded by a woman she meets in town who confesses to her that she’s been doing unmentionable things with Our Woman’s husband. In response, Our Woman goes out into the world determined to do a few unmentionable things of her own to learn a thing or two, but the situation becomes more complicated– her son takes off to join the US army and local rumour has it that he did it to get away from her, and also her obsession with what she saw him doing becomes a kind of fascination, a desire to be close to him in an impossible way that suggests local rumours could be true.

But it’s hard to tell. Malarky is very much of the world– the Irish economy, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the plight of immigrants, mental illness, grief– and yet, its interiority is impermeable. When Our Woman spies her son shirtless in the barn, she notes, “He must have been freezing, his pale body bleary and quivering, trousers at his ankles.” However perversely, she is ever a mother, urging on a sweater. But she’s not just a comic figure; Schofield evokes Our Women with remarkable sympathy: “Mainly she had wanted to hit him about the head and shout these aren’t the things I have planned for you.” Malarky is a journey beyond the limits of love, an equally sad and hilarious portrait of motherhood.

“Malarky is like nothing else, and what everything should be,” is something I wrote down this weekend. First, because it’s as funny as it’s dark, and also because it dares readers to be brave enough to follow along an unconventional narrative. Though the winding path is only deceptively tricky– Our Woman’s voice is instantly familiar, and the shifting perspectives remain so intimate and immediate that the reader follows. Consenting to be led, of course, which is the magic of Malarky. This is a book that will leave you demanding more of everything else you read.(less)

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May 29, 2012 Katie Hilton rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: first-reads

***********This was a Good Reads giveaway****************
I immediately fell in love with the title of this book, so I read on to the plot summary. When I read the plot summary on the site, I was drawn to the comically dark and twisted plot line, so I entered the giveaway.

Honestly, I felt like I was peeking into the intimate lives of this family and watching all of their dirty laundry unfold. As I read on , I began to have wavering feelings about the main character. I don’t want to reveal any spo...more

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Dec 13, 2012 Ylva Nora Ulvestad rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: family

Grief can take many odd shapes, even the form of naked men "at each other all the time, all day long".

Set in contemporary, rural Ireland "Malarky" opens with a grief counseling. "Our Woman", recently widowed, talking about her dreams of naked men. "Grief", the counselor, recommends "to scrub the kitchen floor very vigorously", admitting "she´d never come across a woman who´d experienced this".

Later on but earlier in time, "Red the Twit" approaches "Our Woman" and confesses having had an affair w...more Grief can take many odd shapes, even the form of naked men "at each other all the time, all day long".

Set in contemporary, rural Ireland "Malarky" opens with a grief counseling. "Our Woman", recently widowed, talking about her dreams of naked men. "Grief", the counselor, recommends "to scrub the kitchen floor very vigorously", admitting "she´d never come across a woman who´d experienced this".

Later on but earlier in time, "Red the Twit" approaches "Our Woman" and confesses having had an affair with "Himself", the husband of "Our Woman". Just to get replaced by a new event, seeing her son Jimmy secretly with another man in the barn, doing "unmentionable things".

Jimmy just recently moved back for a short while into his parents home after being forced out of University. The relationship between father and son is tense, and "Our Woman" tries her best to keep them separated as good as possible. "Himself" is a man of few words and actions, troubled by his own worries that in this times a man can´t get a good price for his cows anymore. He is out in the fields more often than not, minding his own business. Jimmy is an easy target for his father, not understanding in his resentment what is going on in his life. Then Jimmy leaves for America to join the Army, later departing for Afghanistan where he is killed. But for the first time "Himself" is proud, because Jimmy finally took action instead of talking about things.

"Our Woman" spends more and more time in the public library, strangely drawn to books about the Middle East when she meets Halim, a young security guard of Syrian origin. She seduces him and they start an affair. A strange affair it is to be sure. "Our Woman" sees the sex more as a journey to understand her son, while Halim makes inquiries of "Our Woman" pelvis and cervix and asking constantly questions about her three births she had given. Obviously making this query, similar as "Our Woman" does, for seeking knowledge instead of pleasure.

"Malarky" is a disconnected, non-linear novel in 20 episodes, a tragicomedy, constantly shifting between past and present tense, first and third person narrative, inner dialogues, and rather plotless in fact. Every narrator seems a unreliable one, neither can memories be trusted and many voices are telling the story, muddled, demanding and challenging.

Very smart and cleverly constructed Anakana Schofield dives deeply into the mind of "Our Woman", a voyage into the mind of an ordinary, middle-aged woman dealing with grief. A journal and a journey of emotions, mental anxieties and desire. It is dark, sometimes funny, even less so hilarious but always engaging. The prose is beautiful, lyrical and the similes, and there are many, sparkling with the sound and the rhythm of music. Often they are along the lines of spoken word, but this makes the strong Irish accent of our characters even more authentic.
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Jul 09, 2012 Barbara rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: can-lit, fiction

Despair and Dignity: Anakana Schofield’s inaugural novel, Malarky

Darkly humourous, Malarky is about the struggle to understand this thing called life. Set in rural County Mayo, Ireland, the story concerns Our Woman, Philomena as she reels from a blender of shocks: her son’s homosexuality, being told that her husband’s having an affair by his God-fearing mistress, and the death of the two most important men in her life.

The book is about grief, longing, the closeting of sexuality—any sexuality—and...more

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Feb 03, 2013 Mara rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-2013, writers-craft-bookgroup

You have to have a little faith. I mean, you have to believe, starting out that there is some pay-off for the switching pronouns and the jumbled timeline and the ambiguities, and if you are willing to sort of surrender the need to know exactly what is going on from the beginning and submit and enjoy the voice, then the book does, what, pay off? Which is to say, that what it took for me to read this, besides a commitment for the book group that read it, was a lot of the sort of work that I put in...more

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Oct 28, 2012 Jackie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Although relatively short, this was a challenging read due to the unique voice of Our Woman. Some lines were so marvelous they had to be reread- "Aine's questions arrive like blood sausage on plates for hungry men." I became fascinated by Our Woman because of her strength and personality. Sometimes I drop books because the characters are flat, I fail to "buy in" to their hopes, dreams, and the things that make them tick. I was sold when it came to Our Woman, she was almost too real. As I sat on...more

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Aug 05, 2012 Cheryl rated it 1 of 5 stars

When I first read the summary for this book, I thought it sounded interesting. Not something that I usually would go for but I am willing to go outside of my box and try new authors and books. This is how I have discovered some good ones. Sadly, I found myself not being able to get into this book. The first person talk, I did a little bit of an issue with in the beginning but then I got used to it. I kind of found it intriguing like thought bubbles. Like I was reading the woman's thoughts. This...more

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Anakana Schofield Thank you very much for reading Malarky Cheryl. I'm glad you went "out of your box" and discovered it.

You are right that the novel is disjointed. The...more
Aug 08, 2012 11:00pm

Cheryl Hello Anakana,

Thank you for the explanation of the disjointment of this book. I was getting Philomena's grief but just could not get into the fact th...more
Aug 11, 2012 09:02am

Anakana Schofield Oh pls do try to finish it.

It is a challenging literary work and deliberately thwarts the linear and chronological found in more middle brow novels....more
Aug 11, 2012 12:44pm

Mar 05, 2013 Anne rated it 2 of 5 stars

It is evident that a lot of work and research went into this book, and the insights into rural irish life, parenting a gay son and two distant daughters, living with depression/mental health issues, having and losing a son serving in the american army in iraq/dealing with becoming a widow of a less-than-loved husband etc. are worthwhile and really what helped me to finish this book. the plot jumps back and forth and it is a challenge to keep up with many aspects, however, i found it a pretty dis...more

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May 20, 2012 Meagan Kashty rated it 4 of 5 stars

Set in modern day Ireland, Malarky is a story told in episodes of one woman's attempt to deal with grief. Our woman — or Phil — transitions from a traditional house wife, whose only ambition is to please her husband and children, to a woman on a mission to achieve independence. Told in a variety of different voices, the reader is subject to the desperation and confusion Our Woman faces on her journey.
Quirky, and at times laugh-out-loud funny, Malarky gives an interesting perspective to a story...more

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Jun 30, 2012 Tricia Dower rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book might not be everybody’s cup of tea and I can’t image how a copyeditor managed to tackle it with changes from present to past tense in a single sentence and the narrator speaking of herself in both first and third person, often in the same chapter (or “Episode” as a chapter is called). I struggled with this at first but quickly gave myself over to the experience of being inside the head of a woman with a wry sense of humour who has been driven quite mad with hurt, grief (she’s lost so...more This book might not be everybody’s cup of tea and I can’t image how a copyeditor managed to tackle it with changes from present to past tense in a single sentence and the narrator speaking of herself in both first and third person, often in the same chapter (or “Episode” as a chapter is called). I struggled with this at first but quickly gave myself over to the experience of being inside the head of a woman with a wry sense of humour who has been driven quite mad with hurt, grief (she’s lost so much), regret and longing. I had to put the book down at times because the woman’s honesty was painful, almost too intimate. Since you know what’s happened almost from the beginning, I wasn’t turning the page because of a suspenseful plot. But I returned to it, after pauses, to learn how Our Woman, as the narrator refers to herself, gained her equilibrium and found her path forward; how audaciously she did so! The last two lines are masterful and moving: “It’s beautiful when it all makes sense, so it is. Occasionally it all makes sense, just for a moment.”

I applaud Schofield for portraying an older woman without resorting to stereotypes, for her empathy in understanding how betrayed this woman would feel at her husband’s infidelity after having waited fifteen years for him to marry her in the first place and having taken care of him in the way she believed she was expected to. It’s easy to judge Our Woman, as her husband did, as having coddled her son and made him “soft,” and to bristle at how dismissive she is about her daughters. But Schofield helps us see that this blind love of mother for son is the fulfillment of a need unmet in Our Woman’s marriage. I loved the author’s deft use of defining detail to let us into Our Woman’s life in the village, on the farm, among her narrow group of friends. This is a subtle book that makes you work a bit to figure out what’s going on but it’s all there if you look. One of the most original books I've ever read. I honestly don’t see how Schofield could have done it any better.
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Jul 10, 2012 Lisa de Nikolits rated it 5 of 5 stars

Brilliant is a word that's been used to describe Malarky by Anakana Schofield and I have to employ it again. I never understood the term modern-day classic until I read Malarky. It's the kind of book you want to read again and again because, even as you read and appreciate it, you know there's so much that you're missing. With unexpected storylines, vivid humour and astonishing insights, Malarky is a highly original, brilliant work that should not be missed.

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Jul 18, 2012 Donna Bryant rated it 1 of 5 stars

This book was aptly named, it was pure malarky, intact, it stunk. I know many people from Ireland and not one of them speaks the way Ms. Schofield writes. The book was unbelievable, incoherent, confusing and very hard to follow. I can't believe it won any awards or made it to any best-seller list.

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May 20, 2012 Mary rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-2012

Strange, very strange, but brilliant for the honest, unforgettable, and occasionally very funny voice of Phil ("Our Woman") as she meanders through twenty "episodes" of grief-induced confusion stemming from the betrayal of her dour husband and the loss of her beloved son.

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Jul 28, 2012 Ann rated it 4 of 5 stars

a rare jewel, takes us inside the mind of Our Woman completely, with all her worries and incredible ways to work out anxiety about her son and husband....definitely one of a kind....quite stream of consciousness, so not for everyone

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Apr 15, 2013 Patricia L. added it · review of another edition

This book sings with humanity. It is unexpected. I look forward to reading it again. I will definitely buy anything Anakana Schofield writes from now on.

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May 05, 2013 Liz Windhorst Harmer rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: literary, canadian, experimental

"Malarky" is superbly well-written--the prose is elegant and surprising, the tone is strange and interesting, and the ideas are profound--and the three stars I gave it have to do with how difficult I found it to become involved in the story. It wasn't the right book at the right time for me; I'll return to it. That said, I loved the Halim parts especially, and enjoyed Schofield's eye for description and her ear for dialogue. Well deserving of the acclaim and awards it has been receiving.

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Mar 25, 2013 Joan rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Interesting story, sometimes tiresome writing style- kept switching between first and third person, which I hate.

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Jun 13, 2012 Vickie rated it 1 of 5 stars

New author, book received great review but I certainly didn't get it. Did not like it at all.

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Jul 10, 2012 Sue Sharp rated it 1 of 5 stars

started out funny and interesting, then got just weird... maybe just the mood I was in?

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Feb 08, 2013 Mark Young rated it 4 of 5 stars

How can you not love "Our Woman" for her honesty, determination and good humour? She's trying to make the best of a bad situation and then, when things get worse, trying to figure out how to keep it together. A black comedy of sorts that is laugh out loud hilarious and quite moving at the same time. I would recommend this to readers of all tastes and preferences. Just that good.

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Jan 05, 2013 Marie rated it 5 of 5 stars

excellent read - an amazing protagonist who winds up and is wound up by others. The story of a woman, cutting observations, glorious wit. A wonderful last line.

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May 18, 2013 Janet rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Shelves: to-read-biblioasis, to-read-canada, to-read-soon

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Anakana Schofield is an Irish-Canadian writer of fiction, essays, and literary criticism. She has contributed to the London Review of Books Blog, Little Star, The Recorder: The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, the Globe and Mail, and the Vancouver Sun. She has lived in London and Dublin, and now resides in Vancouver. Her debut novel Malarky was selected for the highly competitive...more

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