Someone Not Really Her Mother

Influences:

This is a list of some of the literature I love most and have found most inspiring for my own writing. I could add a hundred more, yet these rise to the top, always.

Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

The Good Soldier
- Ford Madox Ford

The Tempest -
William Shakespeare

The Metamorphoses -
Ovid

Pride and Prejudice
- Jane Austen

Annie Dunne - Sebastian Barry

The Death of the Heart- Elizabeth Bowen

A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro

The Wings of the Dove - Henry James

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne - Brian Moore

The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison

Gilead - Marilynne Robinson

“Lifting Belly” - Gertrude Stein

To the Lighthouse
- Virginia Woolf

 

 

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