The Historians by Eavan Boland

The Historians by Eavan BolandThroughout her nearly sixty year career, acclaimed poet Eavan Boland came to be known for her exquisite ability to weave myth, history, and the life of an ordinary woman into mesmerizing poetry. She was an essential voice in both feminist and Irish literature, praised for her "edgy precision, an uncanny sympathy and warmth, an unsettling sense of history" (J. D. McClatchy). Her final volume, The Historians, is the culmination of her signature themes,

Oscar Wilde

she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire

Mr Gray is a very serious man

Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction

a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret Drabble

A group of friends in late middle age

Set for wide crossover appeal

past-- Say Nothing conjures a world of passion

a beguiling romantic hero who tells her on date one that he's going to marry her

At every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself

unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives

A pair of motherless children are visited by Crow