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The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Edna O´Brien´s The Country Girls trilogy begins in August 2019.
Her stunning new novel Girl will be published by Faber in September 2019, available to pre-order now.

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The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Edna O´Brien´s The Country Girls trilogy begins in August 2019.

After leaving for a religious community in Belgium, the young woman in A Pagan Place becomes lost in memories of her childhood in rural Ireland, reflecting on the rituals of village life, the people she encountered, the enchanting beauty of the landscape, the concept of home - and the shocking event that led to her departure ...

Edna O´Brien´s stunning new novel Girl will be published by Faber in September 2019, available to pre-order now.

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Edna O´Brien is one of the greatest writers in the English-speaking world. New York Times

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O´Brien, Edna
Edna O´Brien has written more than twenty works of fiction. She is the recipient of many awards, including the Irish PEN Lifetime Achievement Award, the American National Arts Gold Medal, the Frank O´Connor Prize and the PEN/Nabokov Award For Achievement in International Literature. Born and raised in the west of Ireland, she has lived in London for many years.

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