Girl von O'Brien, Edna

When a man who calls himself a faith healer arrives in a small, west-coast Irish village, the community is soon under the spell of this charismatic stranger from the Balkans. One woman in particular, Fidelma McBride, becomes enthralled...

Paperback edition of the autobiography from one of the greatest names in 20th century literature. O'Brien describes her childhood in Ireland, her move to London, and her literary life of high drama and encounters with Hollywood giants,...

Ten years on from her last novel, Edna O'Brien reminds us why she is thought to be one of the great Irish writers of this and any generation. When a wanted war criminal from the Balkans, masquerading as a faith healer, settles in a small...

As dramatised on BBC Radio 4, Edna O'Brien's iconic trilogy of novels - The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss - depicts the lives and loves of two girls in rural 1950s Ireland. Edna O'Brien's debut novels...

Country Girls by Edna O'Brien is here adapted for the stage from the stunning, controversial novel that shocked a nation in 1960 - publishing to coincide with the paperback of Edna's O'Brien's astonishing memoir Country Girl. von...

Country Girl von O'Brien, Edna

The new novel by the legendary Edna O'Brien, author of The Country Girls (dramatised on BBC Radio 4 in August 2019). Captured, abducted and married into Boko Haram, the narrator of this story witnesses and suffers the horrors of a...

The Little Red Chairs von O'Brien, Edna

Paradise von O'Brien, Edna

A treasure of world literature back in print, featuring a new introduction by Eimear McBride This omnibus edition includes the novels The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl, and Girls in Their Married Bliss. The country girls are Caithleen...

Features stories of families, feuds, enchantment, disenchantment and the manifold bonds of love. These stories are about the tension between country and city life, the instinct towards escape and nostalgia for home; and always in...