Book review: The Joyce Girl

Mixing fact with fiction, a novel about James Joyce and his daughter Lucia claims that they had an incestuous relationship. This is not just nonsense, says Frank MacGabhann, but literary child abuse.

Book review: The Joyce Girl
Sat, 22 Oct, 2016 - 01:00
Review: Frank MacGabhann

Annabel Abbs

Impress Books, €11.75

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