The Penny Dropping by Helen Farish #joyce With echoes of Kazuo Ishiguro

With echoes of Kazuo Ishiguro and Margaret Atwood

Faber & FaberISBN: 9780571338030Extent: 368 pages

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The Penny Dropping by Helen Farish #joyce With echoes of Kazuo IshiguroThe Penny Dropping offers an account of a cherished relationship from first meeting to eventual break up. Distance gives the writer a retrospective clarity from which she does not flinch despite its challenges (Look at me, laments the speaker in Pretty Woman, stepping back into the dress, pulling up the side zip, smoothing it down, as though thats all it took). But ultimately poems such as No Point Now undo their own argument that the penny has