The whole family on the porch, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. From that porch we spool back through the generations…

The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland for lives they never could have imagined in Dublin, New York and various third-world towns. In her early old age…

Sam and Henny Pollit are a warring husband and wife, he a fully blown narcissist and she spoiled and prone to fits of despair. Christina Stead’s masterpiece about family life…