Night

Edna O'Brien

Lying on a four-poster bed, unable to sleep, Mary Hooligan recounts (mis)adventures, courtships, and sexual encounters of the most transgressive kind, in a narrative voice of blistering originality.

A haunting novel from the iconic Irish legend behind The Country Girls trilogy.'The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose - there's no one like Edna O'Brien.' Anne Enright'Novels of heart-breaking empathy, rigorous honesty and peerless beauty.' Eimear McBride'A profound intelligence spurred on by a tangible, fizzing joy.' Megan Nolan'Brilliant and brave.' Ann Patchett'A revolution.' John Banville'Glittering energy.' Colm ToibinEdna O'Brien's chilling spectre of a novel, Night, is narrated by one of her most memorable characters, Mary Hooligan. Lying on a four-poster bed, unable to sleep, she recounts her (mis)adventures, courtships, and sexual encounters of the most transgressive kind in a narrative voice of blistering, radical originality.With an introduction by Andrew O'Hagan