Feminine Gospels

"Duffy has long showed a certain willingness to play to the gallery, an insistence on driving the point past home. Such faults are more common, and more distracting, now....Yet to castigate Duffy for her phrasings is, perhaps, to miss the point: she wants us to concentrate on the stories she tells, rather than on the language in which she tells them. Alas, the stories themselves can become as predictable as the phrases they include....The lyric verse towards the end of the volume manifests...Duffy's talents as a writer for young people: these poems can sound well-managed, reader-friendly, even seductive in their quiet arrangements...."Duffy, Carol Ann is the author of 'Feminine Gospels' with ISBN 9780330486439 and ISBN 0330486438.