Anne Enright’s bold new novel The Wren, The Wren is the work of a writer at the height of her power
- Written by: Georgia Phillips, Lecturer, Creative Writing, University of Adelaide
bieszczady_wildlife/shutterstockIn her essay Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown, published in 1924, Virginia Woolf famously proposed that the novel’s primary function is the expression of character. She presented the maxim: “it is only if the characters are real that the novel has any chance of surviving.”
But in her discussion of what...
