White Feathers
Romance? Suffragettes? WWI? Mustard Gas? BTS's Kim Seokjin and the magic of his "Super Tuna" (not a euphemism)
I mean, if that's what we're talking in this month's episode on Susan Lanigan's "White Feathers" we better all strap in folks.
To give the briefest of overviews, we've got:
- Ashling Murphy's murder and how we wish the other women killed last year (some as recently as 3 weeks ago) had the same public response
- What is a Bluestocking anyway
- "Finishing School" sounds like the most depressing thing in the world
- The Evil Stepmother - is this a trope simply because evil stepmothers ran rampant at one time?
- How much we love a complicated "horrible" character - and Eva's sister Grace is exactly one of those
- How familial support is different depending on what your parents experience is growing up - if someone grew up in poverty, is keeping you out of it enough for protection?
- And is a relationship with a teacher EVER okay?
Tangents? Well I mean, obviously:
- Our shared anger over the murder of Ashling Murphy AND the other unmentioned women killed recently in Ireland
- Chloe's imaginary wedding to BTS's Jungkook (yes again)
- Seriously, when is BTS's Jin going to get a Pultizer for Super Tuna?
- Katie's Dad's car
- A whistlestop tour through Cliodhna's therapy schedule
- And the fact that Katie still isn't 100% sure what gaslighting is, no matter how many times she (incorrectly) uses the term
That and the birth of the hashtag "WWI Germans are people too"
It's all here in this month's Chick Lit 4 Life!
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Eva Downey jumps at the chance to attend finishing school, especially as she is about to be pushed into marriage by her overbearing stepmother. At the school she finds kinship, and, unexpectedly, love. But when war breaks out in 1914, her family are pushing her into giving the man she loves a white feather of cowardice, because he refuses to enlist. Eva’s decision will have devastating consequences for her – and everyone around her.
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In 2003, Susan Lanigan graduated from a Masters in Creative Writing in NUI Galway. Since then, she has had short stories published in The Stinging Fly, Southword, The Sunday Tribune, the Irish Independent, Nature, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Mayo News. She has been thrice shortlisted for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award and longlisted and shortlisted for the Fish Short Story Contest, the Bristol Prize, the Raymond Carver Short Story Award and other competitions.
To find out more about Susan Lanigan, visit