2022/39: Lucky Woman -- Patricia Finney

2022/39: Lucky Woman -- Patricia Finney

This is why middle-aged mothers like I was then go to watch movies like Lord of the Rings or King Alfred or Gladiator, full of noble stoical men who fight and get knocked down and then get up again, about men who are competent, who don’t run away or whine or hide, who keep their promises, whom you can trust. Mythical beasts, of course. [loc. 350]

When I bought this (in 2014) it was entitled Love Without Shadows. As a teenager I'd obsessively reread Finney's two novels about an Irish bard in Roman Britain, A Shadow of Gulls and The Crow Goddess: later, I'd enjoyed her 'Elizabethan noir' novels, Firedrake's Eye and the rest. I was intrigued by what she might do in a contemporary setting -- though, obviously, not intrigued enough to read this novel as soon as I'd bought it...

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