Gwendoline Riley: âcharts the impossibility of communicationâ. Photograph: Adrian Lourie/Writer Pictures
Gwendoline Riley: âcharts the impossibility of communicationâ. Photograph: Adrian Lourie/Writer Pictures
A mother and daughterâs tense relationship makes for a devastating, quietly brutal novel
Sun 4 Apr 2021 00.30 EDT
Inter-generational friction is hardly new, but it does feel like the tension between boomers and their millennial children is more fraught than usual. On the one hand, you have a cohort who own their homes and can look back on lives of travel and financial security; their children, however, are perma-renters eking out their existences in precarious jobs and frying their mental health with social media. Itâs fertile ground for fiction and few have charted the territory better than Gwendoline Riley.
Bridget marks diamond jubilee of her move to Monasterevin
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Donegal native Bridget Grant recently celebrated the diamond jubilee of her move to Moore Abbey in Monasterevin in 1961 (now the Muiriosa Foundation).
Bridget, a proud Buncrana woman who travelled home on holiday every year, missed her trip in 2020 due to Covid-19.
She used her time instead to move to a new home in the local area with two of her friends. As an active and popular member of her parish and local community, Bridget now considers herself an honorary Monasterevin woman.
A big sports fan, she cheers for Kildare in the Championship as long as they aren’t playing Donegal. Her other passions include supporting the national soccer and rugby teams, bingo and bowling.