Since her first book in 1960 Edna O’Brien has been a subject of controversy in her native land and elsewhere. She has written over twenty books of fiction and a life of James Joyce.

She has been called ‘Joyce’s spiritual daughter’ (San Francisco Chronicle), ‘Prose with the spellbinding quality of Faulkner’ (Le Figaro) and ‘the most gifted woman now writing in English’ by Philip Roth.

Her most recent novel was In The Forest, based on a triple murder in her native County Clare. Her new novel The Light of Evening, her most ambitious work yet, is a story of attachments, the attachment to land and the binding attachment between mother and daughter. It will be published in September. Awards include European Literature Prize, Irish PEN Lifetime Award, Writers Guild of Great Britain Award, Los Angeles Times Fiction Award, American National Arts Gold Medal and many others.

Edna O’Brien lives in London.

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