Daisy and Woolf Book Reviews
Daisy and Woolf by Michelle Cahill Book Summary
'This is where I begin. This blank page draws me nearer to you, the day sweltering, my courage quickens, the curtains billowing and the punkah swaying, the punkah rattling as I sit at my writing bureau ... it is a soothing sound.'
Mina, a writer, is navigating her place in the world, balancing creativity, academia, her sexuality and the expectation that a wife and mother abandons herself for others. For her, like so many women of mixed ancestry, it is too easy to be erased. But her fire and intellect refuse to bow. She discovers 'the dark, adorable' Eurasian woman Daisy Simmons, whom Peter Walsh plans to marry in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. Daisy disappeared from Woolf's pages, her story unfinished - never given a voice in the novel, nor a footnote in any of the admiring Woolf scholarship that followed.
While dealing with the remains of another life, Mina decides to write Daisy's story. Travelling from Australia to England, India and China, freelancing and researching, she has to navigate cultural and race barriers, trying hard not to look back or flinch at the personal cost. Like Woolf, her writing both sustains and overwhelms her. But in releasing Daisy from her fictional destiny, Mina finds the stubbornness and strength to also break free.
'An elegant meditation on race, class and privilege ... Daisy and Woolf not only brings us stories of brave, clever women in an eloquent way, it also leaves questions for us readers to think of our own trajectory of reading and influences' ArtsHub
'Cahill writes beautifully ... Daisy and Woolf is a novel about reclamation. Highlighting the inadvertent racism inherent in much of the classical literary canon, it reinforces the the importance of Own Voices writing, and shines a light on the lives of people of colour that cannot be understood or expressed without their input' The Age
'an impressive, ambitious postmodern novel that raises questions around race, class, feminism, Empire, the post-colonial voice and so much more ... a fascinating work, it's rare to see something of its kind in the Australian literary landscape' Readings
PRAISE FOR MICHELLE CAHILL:
'Her deftness and linguistic grace masks her purpose, till she reveals a shocking glimpse of the price that art can exact' - HILARY MANTEL
'Traverses centuries, cultures and continents to deftly explore how race, gender and class have the power to shape a narrative' - MAXINE BENEBA CLARKE
'A dauntless novel of empire, and its ever-replicating costs. There are echoes of Michael Ondaatje in this novel's lush and observant prose-craft. This is fiction at its most human and humane' - BEEJAY SILCOX
'In luminous prose, she has brought an old world back to life. Her background as a poet is clear in her evocative and detailed descriptions of colonial India. Daisy's voice is perfectly tuned and her story is compelling' - MELANIE CHENG
'At once critically acute and narratively rich, Daisy and Woolf shows us that there are always new ways to read the past in order to understand the present' - PATRICK FLANERY
'Michelle Cahill deploys poetry and history in the most powerful manner possible to write back to Virginia Woolf, and expose the colonial gaze that did not (does not) acknowledge the full humanity of others. This novel will be to Mrs Dalloway what Wide Sargasso Sea was to Jane Eyre' - MEENA KANDASAMY
Book Name | Daisy and Woolf |
Genre | Fiction & Literature |
Author | Michelle Cahill |
Published | 27 April 2022, Wednesday |
Language | English |
E-Book Size | 1.96 MB |
Daisy and Woolf (Michelle Cahill) Book Reviews 2024
We transfer money over €4 billion every month. We enable individual and business accounts to save 4 million Euros on bank transfer fees. Want to send free money abroad or transfer money abroad for free? Free international money transfer!
Did you know that you can earn 25 USD from our site just by registering? Get $25 for free by joining Payoneer!
Download Link | Book Format |
daisy-and-woolf-ebook.pdf | |
daisy-and-woolf-ebook.epub | EPUB |
daisy-and-woolf-ebook.kindle | KINDLE |
Daisy and Woolf E-book (PDF, PUB, KINDLE) Download
Daisy and Woolf ebook daisy-and-woolf (1.96 MB) download new links will be update!
Daisy and Woolf Similar Books
Book Name | Score | Reviews | Price |
Tongue Twisters for Kids | 3.5/5 | 1,889 | $0.99 |
The Scarlet Letter | 4/5 | 4,422 | Free |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | 4/5 | 3,866 | Free |
Through the Looking-Glass | 4/5 | 1,622 | Free |
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | 4/5 | 884 | Free |
Enhance sleep, vision, cognition, flexibility, energy, long-range health and more. Performance Lab CORE Formulas support all aspects of human performance, across all walks of life. Boosts work performance and productivity with nootropics for focus, multitasking under stress, creative problem-solving and more.
Book Name | Score | Reviews | Price |
Letter to Pessoa | 0/5 | 0 | $9.99 |
Resilience | 0/5 | 0 | $8.99 |
Summary of Daisy and Woolf by Michelle Cahill
The Daisy and Woolf book written by Michelle Cahill was published on 27 April 2022, Wednesday in the Fiction & Literature category. A total of 176 readers of the book gave the book 0 points out of 5.
Book Name | Author | Price |
The Land That Time Forgot | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Free |
Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | Free |
Maximum Risk | Jennifer Lowery | Free |
Sword of Fire | J.A. Culican | Free |
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Free |
Coinbase is the world's most trusted place to buy and sell cryptocurrency. Open an account today, and if you buy or sell $100 or more of crypto, you'll receive $10 worth of free Bitcoin!
Book Name | Author | Price |
Three Sisters | Heather Morris | $1.99 |
All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | $13.99 |
Chain Gang All Stars | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah | $13.99 |
Black Cake | Charmaine Wilkerson | $13.99 |
The Ball at Versailles | Danielle Steel | $14.99 |
Jasper is the generative AI platform for business that helps your team create content tailored for your brand 10X faster, wherever you work online.
Please wait! Daisy and Woolf book comments loading...
Michelle Cahill - Daisy and Woolf Discussions & Comments
Have you read this book yet? What do you think about Daisy and Woolf by Michelle Cahill book? Ask the bookpedia.co community a question about Daisy and Woolf!