In his 2006 short-story collection, Mothers and Sons, Tóibín brought us relationships that were often characterised by the way they inverted traditional roles. Rarely are they uncomplicated figures of placid, nurturing devotion but they do make for fantastically involving fiction. C olm Tóibín's mothers don't always behave as they should they are often unpredictable, occasionally downright troublesome, prone to gusts of passion or rage or – worse – unnatural indifference.
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