Lucia Joyce, daughter of James, became a dancer in Paris when the Joyce family lived there in the 1920s. But she was a schizophrenic and spent most of her adult life in institutions. This novel draws ...

Writing a fictionalised story of Lucia Joyce is a challenge; James Joyce’s tragic daughter was the subject of a thorough biography by Carol Loeb Schloss and her story is familiar. Abbs shows affection ...

Anyone who has faced insomnia will know that the appropriately named “witching” hours unleash an angry, ruminative, restless self. This wild, disinhibited self, so desperate as to bargain with a devil ...