Edna O'Brien: xg

by O'brien, Edna

ISBN: 9780297851356

Published: 2006

THE COUNTRY GIRLS launched Edna O'Brien on a remarkable writing career. Her fiction has since been published across the world. Recently she has concentrated on novels about Ireland - property, terrorism, morality and the law. Now she returns to the world of her first novel, rural Ireland and the relatioship between mother and daughter. Whereas THE COUNTRY GIRLS was, as she once said, ' a simple little tale of two girls who were trying to burst out of their gym frocks and their convent, and their own lives in their own houses, to make it to the big city', in TWILIGHT, the mother is dying, her daughter, a writer, is in the aftermath of a rotten marriage. The novel reflects their lives and their relationship down the years. There are moments of lyricism and anecdote, but essentially, as with everything Edna O'Brien writes, it is her understanding of character that wins through. When we meet the mother, now in her seventies, she is seeing her doctor. She knows she is seriously unwell....