RaveStinging Fly (IRE)A memoir which seeks to be classified otherwise, shelved elsewhere, subjected to another kind of reading ... The choreography of telegraph, retention and release across her narratives; her eye for the banal as much as the absurd, subtextually compelling detail; the stately weight and balance of her sentences; as well as her capacity for cruelty, have led some to imagine Malcolm, albeit at her own implicit invitation, as an artist in the cut of Highsmith, or Chekhov, or James ... Interesting, pleasurable.
