Edna O’Brien byla jedním z největších kronikářů ženské zkušenosti 20. století. Její díla, včetně románů, povídek a her, se vyznačují pronikavým pohledem na intimní životy svých postav. O’Brien se nebojácně zabývala tématy ženské sexuality a společenskými omezeními, čímž si vysloužila uznání i kontroverze. Její jedinečný styl a hluboké pochopení lidské psychiky z ní činí nezapomenutelnou hlas pro čtenáře.
From eccentric Joanna's boarding house, predatory Baba roams Dublin looking for men to give her a good time - and dragging with her a reluctant Cait, worrying about her figure and wanting to talk about books. Then she meets dark, long-faced Eugene Gaillard, a film director, and for a while Cait's romantic dreams seem to be fulfilled. But Eugene Gaillard is a Protestant divorce, and when Cait's drunkard father gets to hear of it, he summons a lynch mob.
The acclaimed author describes her convent school education in Ireland, the scandal that ensued upon the publication of her first novel, and the wild 1960s parties that introduced her to people from all walks of life.
O'Brien's latest novel charts the quick and critical demise of relations between "the warring sons of warring sons" fighting over inherited land in the countryside of western Ireland.
This novel tells the story of two Irish girls, Caithleen Brady and Bridget Brennan, and their escape from a life filled with countryside and convent to the allure and the crowds, lights and noise of Dublin.
