Aged 88, Edna O’Brien still as fearless as her fiction

The acclaimed Irish writer’s first novel, ‘The Country Girls’, from 1960, was banned and burned in Ireland, but she has lived undaunted ever since and is still writing

Aged 88, Edna O’Brien still as fearless as her fiction

The acclaimed Irish writer’s first novel, ‘The Country Girls’, from 1960, was banned and burned in Ireland, but she has lived undaunted ever since and is still writing.

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