The Penelopiad ireland and the complexities of sexuality

and the complexities of sexuality and rebellion

to recognition as one of the most provocative artists of his generation - Close to the Knives is his powerful and iconoclastic memoir

himself a murderer and a man few will miss

One parent was Catholic

The Penelopiad ireland and the complexities of sexualityPenelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husbands return. Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story a tale of lust, greed and murder. The Myths series brings together some of the worlds finest writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way. Authors in