… I was an old woman before I got myself back. This book helped me retrace my journey and it will do the same for many women.

Above all I enjoyed this anthology for the quality of writing, particularly Dublin writer, Eavan Boland, whose style and maturity is breathtaking.

The writer who surprised and pleased me most is an Australian, Francecsca Rendle-short, who is author of the novel, Imago. In Wee Girls she gives a map of her maternal Irish ancestry in delicate blocks of fiction …

     Rendle-Short’s work and Lizz Murphy’s introduction, which is a funny, anecdotal piece coming down heavily in favour of Ulysses, make Wee Girls hang together, albeit in an Irish sort of way.