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Edna O'Brien

Edna O'Brien is the author of 19 books. She was the winner of the 1993 Writers' Guild Prize for Fiction. Her biography of James Joyce was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in June 1999. Her recent fiction has been about Irish to;pic - religion, politics, property. In 2001 her documentary novel, In the Forest - about a brutal murder on the west coast - caused a furore in her native Ireland. It was the subject of a BBC Omnibus film.

Reviews

Author	Title	Format	Date	Price	ISBN
Edna O'Brien	Byron In Love	Hardback	15/01/2009	£12.99	9780297855538
Edna O'Brien	The Country Girls	Paperback	05/09/2007	£6.99	9780752881164
Edna O'Brien	Girl With Green Eyes	Paperback	05/09/2007	£6.99	9780753821374
Edna O'Brien	The Light of Evening	Paperback	05/09/2007	£6.99	9780753821756
Edna O'Brien	Girls in their Married Bliss	Paperback	05/09/2007	£6.99	9780753821381
Edna O'Brien	A Fanatic Heart	Paperback	06/03/2003	£7.99	9780753813089
Edna O'Brien	In the Forest	Paperback	06/03/2003	£6.99	9780753816851
Edna O'Brien	James Joyce	Paperback	03/08/2000	£7.99	9780753810705
Edna O'Brien	Wild Decembers	Paperback	06/07/2000	£6.99	9780753809907
Edna O'Brien	Returning	Paperback	02/11/1998	£6.99	9780753805343
Edna O'Brien	Down By The River	Paperback	07/04/1997	£6.99	9781857998733
Edna O'Brien	The House Of Splendid Isolation	Paperback	03/04/1995	£6.99	9781857992090
Edna O'Brien	Lantern Slides	Hardback	07/06/1990	£12.00	9780297840190
Edna O'Brien	Night	Hardback	29/03/1990	£10.95	9780297797166
Edna O'Brien	Mrs Reinhart & Other Stories	Hardback	22/02/1990	£11.95	9780297797142
Edna O'Brien	A Scandalous Woman & Other Stories	Hardback	22/02/1990	£11.95	9780297797159

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The Light of Evening

'Written in elegant lyrical sentences that are, at times, nearer to poetry than prose, this is, in the evening of her own career, perhaps O'Brien's finest work.'

Simon Humphreys

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