“I’m the darkest of them all,” sang Andrea Corr on Song of Solomon, one of the standout tracks on the group’s last album, Jupiter Calling. There was always something of the night about the youngest Corr, a streak of melancholia that enhanced and sometimes subverted the band’s otherwise sanguine nature and wholesome image. Years later Andrea recalled how her husband-to-be, Brett Desmond, had initially perceived her as a self-contained, unknowable creature, sitting in a corner “writing poetry about death”. The inspiration for this memoir are literature’s two great themes: love and death. This reignited in Andrea poignant memories of her mother’s sudden death back in 1999, aged 57, an event that devastated the family.

Source: The Irish Times October 29, 2019 06:00 UTC