Lucia's War
Well gang here we are! This week the girls get their socially distanced heads around Susan Lanigan's new novel "Lucia's War" - a historical novel about strength, race, motherhood and what love can and can't achieve against the odds. They go even further over time than they did last week but it was absolutely necessary the girls had too many ideas like seriously!!
Said ideas include, but are not limited to:
- Physical attraction vs intellectual attraction
- "Good" vs "Bad" mothers and is that even a thing?
- The events and effects of WWI
- The girls forgetting that there even was a WWI
- The fact that Lucia's War reminded Cliodhna and Saoirse that they have to re-watch Beyonce's Lemonade (and so should EVERYONE EVER)
- Katie not understanding the sexy, sexy importance of fanfic
- Cliodhna introducing the gang to the idea of Poison Ivy/Harley Quinn ship sexiness
- How Blackpink probably can't have a chicken fillet roll when they have their period
And like that's not even all of it! So you better get started folks - there's a lot of Chicks, Lit and Life in this one!
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More on Lucia's War:
London, 1950. Soprano Lucia Percival has overcome racism and many obstacles to become a renowned opera singer. She is now due to perform her last concert. But she has no intention of going onstage. A terrible secret from her service during the First World War has finally caught up with her.
London, 1917. Lucia, a young Jamaican exile, hopes to make it as a musician. But she is haunted by a tragic separation that is still fresh in her memory – and when she meets Lilian, an old woman damaged by a similar wartime loss, she agrees to a pact that could destroy everything she has fought so hard to achieve.
From the Western Front and the mean streets of Glasgow, to black society in London, Lucia’s story tells a tale of music, motherhood, loss and redemption.
More on Susan Lanigan:
In 2003, Susan Lanigan graduated from a Masters in Creative Writing in NUI Galway. Since then, she has had short stories published in The Stinging Fly, Southword, The Sunday Tribune, the Irish Independent, Nature, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Mayo News. She has been thrice shortlisted for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award and longlisted and shortlisted for the Fish Short Story Contest, the Bristol Prize, the Raymond Carver Short Story Award and other competitions.
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