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Awake Awake by Fiona Mozley review
From the Booker-shortlisted author, a tantalisingly unreliable account of childhood, history and mental uncertainty
TL;DR
- The novel "Awake Awake" by Fiona Mozley examines personal and historical memory, influenced by the author's own background in York.
- The narrator, Mary Mooney, recounts her struggles with mental illness, but her memories are shown to be unreliable, blurring the lines between reality and fiction.
- The story questions the authenticity of recalled events and individuals, with some of Mary's memories and the people within them potentially being "wraiths" or unreal.
- The narrative explores the artfulness of storytelling and the difficulty in distinguishing between factual accounts and constructed narratives.
- The book touches upon themes of contemporary moral and political failure in the UK, alongside philosophical explorations of memory and reality.