A Mummer's Wife

A Mummer’s Wife (1885) is a novel I’m pleased I read, even though I can’t say I wholly enjoyed the process of reading it. I found George Moore’s style rather turgid and his authorial editorializing a little heavy-handed. Whenever I risked being drawn into the novel—and there are some powerful moment......more

Really REALLY GOOD! If you like Zola and L'Assommoir or any of the Naturalists, you've got to read this one.......more

2.5 stars generously rounded up for the curiosity factor. And fair play to George Moore for attempting to write a 'naturalistic' novel inspired by Zola and Flaubert, showing how circumstances change one's psychology. But these characters are terrible. And by terrible I mean that Moore falls flat in......more