Girl Av Edna O'Brien

<p><b>The final novel by the legendary Irish icon Edna O’Brien, author of <i>The Country Girls.</i></b><br><br>''The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose – there''s no one like Edna.'' <b>Anne Enright</b><br><i>''Girl </i>broke me in two: a hard and beautiful miracle.'' <b>Eimear McBride</b><br>''An extraordinary act of imagination.'' <b>J.M. Coetzee </b><br>''Glittering energy . . . Exemplary.'' <b>Colm Tóibín</b><br><br><i>I was a girl once, but not any more . . .</i><br><br>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?<br><b><br>‘Astonishing.’ <i>New Statesman</i><br>‘Raw and transfixing.’ <i>Observer</i><br>‘A masterpiece.’ <i>Irish Independent</i><br>‘Mesmerising.’ <i>Sunday Times</i><br>‘Devastating and moving.’ <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><br><b>*Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2020; l</b><b>onglisted for the 2020 Women''s Prize for Fiction; s</b><b>hortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction; s</b><b>hortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2020*</b></p>