<p><b>‘Reminiscent of Edna O’Brien, with shades too of Jean Rhys.’ –</b><b> <i>The</i> </b><i><b>Irish Times</b></i><br><br><b><i>Things to Come and Go</i> showcases the incomparable talent of Bette Howland in three novellas of stunning power, beauty, and sustaining humour.</b><br><br><b>‘Birds of a Feather’</b> is a daughter’s story of her extended, first-generation family, the ‘big, brassy yak-yakking Abarbanels’. Esti, a merciless, astute observer, recalls growing up amid (the confusions and difficulties of) their history, quarrels, judgements, noisy love and inescapable bonds of blood.<br><br>In <b>‘The Old Wheeze’</b> a single mother in her twenties returns to her sunless apartment after a date at the ballet. Shifting between
