Pagan Place

OBrien, Edna

£8.99

This is Edna O’Brien’s stunning novel about the uniquely wonderful, terrible, peculiar place she once called home. She writes not only of a life there – of a child becoming a woman – but of the Irish experience out of which that life arises. This is the Ireland of country villages and barley fields, of druids in the woods and of mischievous girls. Ireland has marked her life and work with unmistakable colour and depth, and here she recreates her homeland with a singular grace and intensity.

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Publish Date: 03/11/2016

Description

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.

Additional information

Weight 200 g
Dimensions 200 × 130 × 15 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

224

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K