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Brittle Joys Book
Maitland is a feminist Christian theologian who writes good novels about women at crisis point. A good storyteller, Maitland keeps her prose light despite being an intellectual heavy-weight.Ellie, "haloed in the light from the furnace" (there are lots of angels in this book), is a successful glassmaker losing sight of her inner self. Her husband keeps his distance, her daughter has fled to South America; Ellie, too busy to notice, prefers the company of her male, gay friends. Many of them are in the throes of AIDS, and Ellie know how to organise a "good" death. Maitland knows her faghags, and Ellie lives up to all the stereotypes: against an acutely observed London backdrop, Ellie swaps wry, sophisticated repartee with her self-absorbed but redemptively camp best friend, Hugo. It … read more...
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