Deirdre Madden

Remembering Light and Stone (1994)

That Deirdre Madden has been compared to Jean Rhys gives you some indication of what to expect from this novel: soul-searching and angst. As Rhys so often did, Madden focusses here on a young woman, in this case Aisling, who, having left her native Ireland some years before, finds herself working...

Authenticity (2003)

All too often, when novelists write about the artistic process, they treat it as if it is a Serious, Weighty Matter. (I’m thinking of novels like The Blazing World, for one.) As a result, we, as readers, never get the sense of well-rounded characters.For the most part, Deirdre Madden gets it rig...

The Birds of the Innocent Wood (1989)

One by One in the Darkness (1997)