Living 'Down Home' with Mammy and Daddy, she commutes to her good pensionable job in Dublin and stays two nights a week with her boyfriend of seven years, John. The 1st book in the Complete Aisling series.Īisling is 28, and she's a complete Aisling. unphoney charm and unlaborious originality.' Kingsley Amis 'One of the greatest Irish writers, of this or any era.' Sunday Independent 'One of our bravest and best novelists' Irish Times 'A literary great.' Times With all the freshness in the world.' Sunday Times 'An excellent and highly unusual blend of bawdiness and innocence.' Evening Standard 'O'Brien simply offers her characters and they come to us living.' V.S. Banned by the authorities as 'indecent' and burned by the clergy, they were notorious for their frank portrayal of sexual desire: but scandal turned to fame, and made this glorious coming-of-age tale an instant classic that inspires and delights readers to this day. Edna O'Brien's debut novels revolutionised Irish literature in the 1960s. After being expelled from convent school, they dream of the bright lights of Dublin - and are rewarded with bad luck and bad sex marry for the wrong reasons but continue to fight the expectations forced upon 'girls' of every era to become brave new women. Kate is a romantic, looking for love Baba is a reckless survivor. Beautiful.' Anne Enright 'Novels of heart-breaking empathy, rigorous honesty and peerless beauty.' Eimear McBride 'Brilliant and brave.' Ann Patchett 'A treasure.' New York Times ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' Caithleen 'Kate' Brady and Bridget 'Baba' Brennan are growing up in a repressive Irish village after World War II.
'The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose - there's no one like Edna O'Brien.
Edna O'Brien's beloved classics plunge us into the lives and loves of two girls in rural 1950s Ireland (with a new foreword by Eimear McBride).
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