Our reviewers cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases including a reimagining of the fate of Lady Macbeth and a spirited defence of liberalism.
Scottish crime queen Val McDermid has screwed her courage to the sticking-place to imagine the secret history of Lady Macbeth. In Queen Macbeth, the author attempts to unravel the violence done to this real historical figure by history and, of course, by Shakespeare’s play. In this telling, Lady Macbeth is re-established as Gruoch. Her husband did kill Duncan – but on the field on battle, not in a bedroom – and was deposed by his enemies.
The waters are muddied, though, as the spectre of what may be mental illness hangs over the Rachel’s odyssey – whether a form of religious-themed psychosis or flashes of magical realism, it’s hard to say. It’s a promising, if unevenly paced, debut novel.Before psychologist Ariane Beeston had a child, she worked in child protection and felt in charge. When she had a baby and postpartum psychosis hit her like an on-coming train, she wasn’t any more.
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