ISBN 978-1-922776-28-0.
‘Wives are afraid of me now.’ From the opening line of Fallen there is a sense of danger and intimacy. In her latest and most risque? collection Audrey Molloy asks: What makes a good person? What does it mean to be a fallen woman? And can she ever redeem herself? ‘You are one side of an abyss. Everything decent, the other.’ Expanding its vision to track the fallen woman through history, religion and myth Fallen offers better endings for some of the tragic heroines of novel and opera for whom Audrey Molloy speaks. While the poems mine the exquisite pain, joy and persistent guilt of an illicit love affair and expose post-separation social opprobrium, at the core of this collection is the most tender of love stories. ‘And then a skylight opened for each of us.’