Actress, by Anne Enright
(CoVID lockdown book review)
Theatre and Cinema closed. Reading is able to be done. So here is a response to one of the recent reads. Norah is an Irish writer of 5 novels and is 58 – the same age that her mother, Katherine O’Dell, an actress of international fame – both of the theatre and cinema, particularly Theatre – died. Died after a long depression, an accident with a gun and a descent into ‘madness’. An academic is writing her Phd on the life of Katherine and is interviewing Norah to get some insight into her subject. Norah becomes disturbed as she observes…