A Pagan Place

From the iconic author of The Country Girls trilogy, a modern Irish coming-of-age classic. 'My favourite in the whole wonderful O'Brien canon. Told in the second-person voice - a bold syntactic choice - of a young girl, it is at once a coming-of-age story and an account of a vanished way of life in rural Ireland. The Church doesn't escape O'Brien's gimlet gaze.' Maggie O'Farrell After leaving ...