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Annie Freud's award-winning first collection, "The Best Man That Ever Was", introduced readers to a remarkably versatile new voice. "The Mirabelles" delivers a similarly exhilarating cornucopia - the "Mask of Temporary Madness", "Marc Almond", mini-novels, a sonnet long, "Carottes Vichy", and the most gripping account of a billiard game you'll ever read. However, in a new sequence derived from family letters, Freud has invented almost a new kind of writing: neither 'found' nor 'made' in the conventional sense, these poems are profoundly moving, and startling in their boldly unfashionable lack of irony. Elsewhere "The Mirabelles" is full of the world-stuff - the clothes and food, the art and social intrigues - with which we dress and conceal our deeper emotions and appetites. In the end, this is a book about reality and its representations, and the truth and lies we tell about ourselves.
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