5/12/2023 0 Comments Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears![]() In Gillian, it was very close” – and to Brennan’s credit she allows readers to appreciate the full complexity of this closeness. Mears’ friend David Malouf told Brennan that “often the gap between the social person and the writing is great. This is gendered biography, far removed from the cool male remoteness of what Modjeska calls “Great-Man biographies”. ![]() “So porous were the boundaries between her life and fiction that during the course of my research I often became confused,” admits Brennan at the outset. The short life of Gillian Mears – who loved life with a blazing joy but chose to die with dignity at 51 after years struggling with multiple sclerosis – is delivered to us in what might be called its full female embodiment, since sex and the body, and what it means to inhabit femaleness, was central to Mears as a writer and as a person. Gillian Mears found immediate success with The Mint Lawn, which won the Vogel award. ![]()
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