Girl

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*