In fiction, I also like Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John, Althea Prince’s Loving this Man and Ladies of the Night (though that’s a collection of shorts,not novel), Gisele Isaac’s Considering Venus…that’s what comes to mind off the top of my head…full disclosure, my books are listed...
Anne, already not thrilled at this enforced holiday with near-strangers, is clearly trying to antagonise her mother, but as we discover, her cynicism is well-founded, not because of Arthur himself (who is a harmless, if irritatingly childish old man), but because she is used to the unwant...