![]() ![]() ![]() It is clearly a traumatic time for her and she struggles with all the challenges it represents – emotional, physical and administrative. The book begins with her account of her mother’s decline and death and the time she spent caring for her. Her partner is Johannes, whom she meets shortly after the death of her mother. ![]() We know very little of the narrator, except that she is a young woman of indeterminate age, though probably in her early thirties. I had to keep reminding myself that it’s a novel as we become so deeply embedded in the internal world of the unnamed first person narrator that it feels as if it is an autobiography. We are all mothers, spend way too much time talking about our kids and so the blurb, about one woman’s journey to parenthood, spoke directly to us. We love the Women’s Prize and always try to get through a couple on the shortlist. This was the first novel I have read from this year’s Women’s Prize shortlist, and the one which appealed most strongly to my fellow book club members and I. ![]() Sight is the debut novel from British author Jessie Greengrass and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, which was won recently by Kamila Shamsie. ![]()
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