The Mirabelles

An exciting new collection from the prizewinning poet Annie Freud A PBS ChoiceAnnie Freuds awardwinning first collection The Best Man That Ever Was introduced readers to a remarkably versatile new voice The Mirabelles delivers a similarly exhilarating cornucopia the Mask of Temporary Madness Marc Almond mininovels a sonnet long Carottes Vichy and the most gripping account of a billiard game youll ever read. However in a new sequence derived from family letters Freud has invented almost a new kind of writing neither found nor made in the conventional sense these poems are profoundly moving and startling in their boldly unfashionable lack of irony. Elsewhere The Mirabelles is full of the worldstuff the clothes and food the art and social intrigues with which we dress and conceal our deeper emotions and appetites. In the end this is a book about reality and its representations and the truth and lies we tell about ourselves.