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Girl by Edna O'Brien
Category: Fiction
** Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2020 **Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for FictionShortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political FictionShortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2020A Times, Evening Standard and Financial Times Book of the Year I was a girl onc ...Show more
Girl by Edna O'Brien
Category: Fiction
Girl, Edna O'Brien's courageous new novel is an unforgettable depiction of one woman's abduction by Boko Haram. Captured, abducted and married into Boko Haram, the narrator of this story witnesses and suffers the horrors of a community of men governed by a brutal code of violence. Barely more than a gi ...Show more
Girl - A Novel by Edna O'Brien
Category: Fiction
"Narrator Sheila Atim sets a sensitive yet emphatic tone for this harrowing story of violence, loss, and survival...Listeners will be enveloped in this emotional listening experience." --AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner This program is read by Laurence Olivier Award-winning actress, Sheila At ...Show more
House Of Splendid Isolation by Fiona Shaw (Read by); Edna O'Brien
Category: Audio Books
Josie, the ailing, elderly inhabitant of an Irish country mansion, dwells in the shadowy world of remembered pain and loneliness. McGreevy, the terrorist, reintroduces the possibility of compassion and tenderness, but there is an inevitably violent conclusion to their understanding as the police net clo ...Show more
IN THE FOREST by O'BRIEN EDNA
Category: Fiction
In the Forest returns to the countryside of western Ireland, the vivid backdrop of Edna O'Brien's best-selling Wild Decembers. Here O'Brien unravels a classic confrontation of evil and innocence centering on the young, troubled Michael O'Kane, christened by his neighbors "the Kindershrek," someone of wh ...Show more
In the Forest by Edna O'Brien
Category: Fiction
A story of tragedy and grief, set in modern-day Ireland. It is inspired by events which happened in the early 1990s in the woods on the Clare-Galway border, the murders of Imelda Riney, her little son Liam and the Catholic priest Father Joe Walsh.
In the Forest by Edna O'Brien
Category: Fiction
A moving and compelling novel from the acclaimed Edna O'Brien, inspired by a notorious and tragic triple murder. In the Forest, set in the west of Ireland, is the story of a young man who shoots three people dead in a forest glade. The young man, Mich O'Kane, is 'not all there in the head', as one ch ...Show more
James Joyce by Edna O'Brien
Category: Biography Memoir
Edna O'Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works 'to bestir the hearts of men and angels'. The journey begins with Joyce the arrogant youth, his lofty courtship of Nora Barnacle, their hectic sexuality, children, wanderings, debt an ...Show more
James Joyce by Edna O'Brien
Category: Biography
Edna O'Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works 'to bestir the hearts of men and angels'. The journey begins with Joyce the arrogant youth, his lofty courtship of Nora Barnacle, their hectic sexuality, children, wanderings, debt an ...Show more
Light of Evening by O'BRIEN, EDNA
Category: Romance
In this contemporary story with universal resonance, Edna O'Brien delves deep into the intense relationship that exists between a mother and daughter who long for closeness yet remain eternally at odds. From her hospital bed in Dublin, the ailing Dilly Macready eagerly awaits a visit from her long-estr ...Show more
Night by Edna O'Brien
Category: Fiction
Edna O'Brien's classic, rocket of a novel, Night, is narrated by one of her most memorably, unhinged characters, Mary Hooligan. Lying on a four-poster bed, unable to sleep, she recounts (mis)adventures, courtships, and sexual encounters of the most transgressive kind, in a narrative voice of blistering ...Show more
Paradise (Faber Stories) by Edna O'BRIEN
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
An unnamed protagonist is on holiday with her new, much-married lover, in the company of the monstrously rich. 'How long would she last? It would be uppermost in all their minds.' Each day, while the others are out at sea, she is taught to swim. Eventually, she will be expected to perform. The pressure ...Show more