Selected from the book Making Babies by Anne Enright VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. Also in the Vintage Minis series: Love by Jeanette Winterson Fatherhood by Karl Ove Knausgaard Motherhood by Helen Simpson Home by Salman Rushdie

From the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughters search to understand her mothers hidden truths.

This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine ODell, as told by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and Londons West End. Katherines life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wings.

But this romance between mother and daughter cannot survive Katherines past, or the worlds damage. As Norah uncovers her mothers secrets, she acquires a few of her...