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LRB | Terry Eagleton: Mothering (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Helen is estranged from her mother Lily, and fantasises about running her over in a car; indeed, Larry, despite being an easygoing fellow, would very much prefer to be taken hostage by Hizbollah than be locked in a room with Lily. |
 | | Helen’s grandmother, a magnificent creation who lives in a ramshackle old Wexford house overlooking the sea, far from being a withered crone in a fl shawl, is a feisty controversialist who wears make-up, sports a flick knife and learns to drive a car. |
 | | Helen, however, is a harder case, since her relationship with her husband and children depends partly on repressing the vulnerability which her mother evokes in her. |
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