Girl 9780571341184 Paperback

The final novel by the legendary Irish icon Edna O’Brien, author ofThe Country Girls.’The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose – there’s no one like Edna.’Anne Enright’Girlbroke me in two: a hard and beautiful miracle.’Eimear McBride’An extraordinary act of imagination.’J.M. Coetzee’Glittering energy . . . Exemplary.’Colm TibnI 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*