My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley review – broken familial bonds

A mother and daughter’s tense relationship makes for a devastating, quietly brutal novel Inter-generational friction is hardly new, but it does feel like the tension between boomers and their millennial children is more fraught than usual. On the one hand, you have a cohort who own their homes and can look back on lives of travel and financial security; their children, however, are perma-renters eking out their existences in precarious jobs and frying their mental health with social media. It’s fertile ground for fiction and few have charted the territory better than Read full story