
JAYNE MARTIN ON ADULT ISSUES with Rebecca Gransden
With The Daddy Chronicles (Whisk(e)y Tit Books, 2022), Jayne Martin returns to bruised memories. The book is driven to explore how recollection takes form, fragments made vivid, torn from deep wells and thrust into an attempt at order, a chronology, a way to make sense of an absent father. This absence dominates, and is bitterly ever-present. Martin strives to confront the irony in this, and with this collection of memory vignettes, reframes her past. When did you first have the impulse to tackle this subject? Was the form of the book apparent from the start? The book just erupted from…