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201 pages, Hardcover
First published March 6, 2017
I wanted to peep through the keyhole, observing the private lives of women who do not rebel. The day to day of those who do not have novels written about them. The Anna Karenina who is not liberated by that train or Middlemarch's Celia, trudging along with marriage to the kindly, but thickish, Chettam. I mean, at some point she must have blown, right? Or not. Deepening, weaponised silence as a conflict measure.This was a curious experience. I started reading Supporting Act thinking after the first several pages whether if I would even persevere with it. The main character is a woman who starts off so subservient in her role as mother and homemaker I thought that it might be cringe reading throughout. But gradually that shifted and I started to find it to be a compulsive read after all.
What are their lives, these quiet women, in comparison to their more extravagant sisters? Surely they still feel the rage? Perhaps even more rage, having no easily distinguishable passion to hide behind? The rage of generations, and where to direct it in the everyday? - from the Author's Note (see below).

