![]() ![]() It seemed to her that her parents must have been thinking of someone else when they named her. “Her first name was India – she was never able to get used to it. ![]() (There’s a later, longer, companion novel, Mr Bridge.) It is a sort of pointillist portrait of a woman, told in over one hundred brief and discrete (but broadly chronological) sketches, most only a page or two long. Mrs Bridge (1959) was Connell’s first novel. ![]() (Or William Trevor, come to that.) Classics imprints, where are you? It’s hard to see why this book is out of print in the UK, being a portrait of quiet desperation almost as accomplished as the sort of thing people fete Richard Yates for. Connell’s ‘most famous’ novel is, on the surface, less turbulent than The Diary of a Rapist, which I wrote about a couple of years ago. ![]()
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