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Soldier Sailor: 'Exceptionally good' The Times

By Claire Kilroy
Soldier Sailor: 'Exceptionally good' The Times by Claire Kilroy digital book - Fable

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Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us and all is well, for now...

In her first novel for over a decade, Claire Kilroy takes us deep into the early days of motherhood. Exploring the clash of fierce love for a new life with a seismic change in identity, she vividly realises the raw, tumultuous emotions of a new mother, as her marriage strains and she struggles with questions of love, autonomy and creativity.

As she smiles at her baby, Sailor, while mentally composing her own suicide note, an old friend makes a welcome return, but can he really offer a lifeline to the woman she used to be?

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3.5
““I stood waiting for you. As I always stood waiting for you. Your bodyguard, your sentry. My life was passing me by. This was my life. A tree. I stood planted by that playground fence like a tree. Part of the landscape, not notable in itself but for the flower it has borne. All the scenic trees bearing all the scenic children. Those trees seem invulnerable. If one falls, everything falls with it. The whole edifice comes tumbling down. So the tree stands guard, its branches thrown up to the heavens, children perched in them like birds, withstanding whatever the elements throw at it because the tree must.”.”
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