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Summary
The final novel by the legendary Irish icon Edna O’Brien, author of The Country Girls.
‘The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose – there’s no one like Edna.’ Anne Enright
‘Girl broke me in two: a hard and beautiful miracle.’ Eimear McBride
‘An extraordinary act of imagination.’ J.M. Coetzee
‘Glittering energy . . . Exemplary.’ Colm Tóibín
I was a girl once, but not any more . . .
A young Nigerian woman, barely more than a girl herself, must learn to survive with a child of her own, in a world which seems entirely consumed by madness. As she navigates a landscape of terrors and trials, ruled by Boko Haram, can she find a place of safety within a society blinkered by mistrust and denial?
‘Astonishing.’ New Statesman
‘Raw and transfixing.’ Observer
‘A masterpiece.’ Irish Independent
‘Mesmerising.’ Sunday Times
‘Devastating and moving.’ Daily Telegraph
*Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2020; longlisted for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction; shortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction; shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2020*
EdnaO'Brien
Edna O’Brien wrote more than twenty celebrated works of fiction, including her classic The Country Girls trilogy, as well as plays and four works of non-fiction, which have been translated into over thirty languages. Her final novel Girl was awarded the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year in 2020. She was the recipient of many honours, including the Irish…
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