The Light of Evening

Uncorrected Proof. 8vo. 320pp. Glossy pictorial wraps.

On her deathbed in rural Ireland, an elderly widow awaits her long-estranged daughter. Author's semi-autobiographical 20th novel explores the unbreakable bonds between mother and daughter. The book incorporates a selection of letters which O'Brien's own mother send her following the author's flight from Ireland after the shocked reception of her debut novel, The Country Girls (1960). "Philip Roth has called Edna O'Brien the most gifted woman now writing fiction in English, and it is hard not to agree." –The Wall Street Journal