A collection of stories about women saddled with injustice has a repetitive ring.
Cecelia Ahern writes wise, kind, funny novels. Sells them, too: 25 million copies and counting. The Irish writer is best known for her debut, PS I Love You, in which a dead man’s letters guide his wife’s journey through grief. She wrote that at 21 and it was turned into a film starring Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler. Now, 16 years, 15 novels – and, I suspect, a fair bit of world-weariness later – Ahern delivers a short-story collection.
Roar features a line-up of women resisting and rebelling and deciding to do life their way. Their stories are very short – between eight and 20 pages each – and there are 30 of them.
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