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back to a home to which she never wants to return

there was no sun… she had been strangled

‘Loved this… the characters were brilliant and the storyline was amazing

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Playing the Octopus: ENGLISH DICTIONARIES back to a home toMary O Malleys ninth collection moves between two landscapes, that of the West of Ireland and the East coast of America. The first section opens with an elegy for a poet and moves through the familiar geography of a house and its hinterland, and ends with a celebration of the redemptive power of music, one of two motifs that run through the book. The second section examines what happens when the poet finds herself Nel mezzo del camin in a changed