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Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women's Fiction: Gender, Desire and Power. Linden Peach
University of Glamorgan, UK
Correspondence: aaron@glam.ac.uk
2007. Writing Wales in English series. University of Wales Press, Cardiff, pp. 208. £18.99, $35.00 paperback.
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This book, the fifth to appear in the new and hitherto very well-received "Writing Wales in English" series, would appear on the face of it a very welcome addition: the first in the series to focus on women's writing and the first to widen its perspective out from Wales alone and provide a comparative literary analysis, it seems innovative and exciting. It has to be confessed, however, that on closer acquaintance the book proves in many ways disappointing. Though its definition of "contemporary" is broad, beginning in