Kathleen de Burca is fifty year old travel writer whose best friend has just died. Trying to reconcile the life she’s lived with the family she’d abandoned, she goes back to Ireland under the pretense of writing a book about woman from the famine who was forced into a divorce after having an affair with a servant.
My Dream of You dwells on Kathleen life past and present. She’s a broken woman who uses sex as currency and toys with the idea of becoming a kept women and throwing the away the life she’s built as she had her name and Irish family years ago.
The book was sweeping in its misery. Dealing with a broken ideal, Kathleen is a tragic figure who doesn’t have to be. I did enjoy the book though I’m not sure I liked Kathleen at all.
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