Anne Enright is one of the most exciting writers of Irelands youngergeneration a beguiling storyteller The Seattle Times has praised for the ...way she writes a... » 

Anne Enright is one of the most exciting writers of Irelands youngergeneration a beguiling storyteller The Seattle Times has praised for the ...way she writes about women ...their adventures to know who they are throughsex despair wit and singleminded courage. In What Are You Like? MariaDelahunty raised by her grieving father after her mother died duringchildbirth finds herself in her twenties awash in nameless longing and in lovewith the wrong man. Going through his things she finds a photograph that willend up unraveling a secret more devastating than her fathers long mourningbut more pregnant with possibility. Moving between Dublin New York andLondon What Are You Like? is a breathtaking novel of twins and irretrievablelosses of a woman haunted by her missing self and of our helplessness againstour fierce connection to our origins. What Are You Like? has been selected as afinalist for the Whitbread Award. It is a novel Newsday wrote that announcesEnrights excellence as though it were stamped on the cover in boldface.Richly descriptive ... Slightly surreal revelatory images are hallmarks ofEnrights writing which beguiles throughout. Melanie Rehak US WeeklyCool wicked and quintessentially Irish ... Anne Enright tells a sharpstylish tale in an accent all her own. Annabel Lyon The National PostToronto «