Confessions by Catherine Airey is haunted by the likes of Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn and Sinéad Gleeson’s Hagstone, exploring the coding that prevents women from realising their potential
New Yorkers look at the posters of the missing after 9/11, as Cora Brady does in Confessions. Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images
Confessions opens with a gut-punch on the morning of September 11, 2001, in New York City.
Sixteen-year-old Cora Brady is skipping school and waiting for her unreliable, drug-dealer boyfriend to show up. Her mother, we learn, died when she was younger, and her father has already left for his job in the North Tower of the World Trade Centre. Cora has just dropped an acid tab when she turns on the TV news.
