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    ISBN: 9780571341184
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    AuthorO'Brien, Edna
    Pub Date18/06/2020
    BindingPaperback
    Pages240
    Publisher: FABER AND FABER LTD
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    The new novel by the legendary Edna O'Brien, author of The Country Girls (dramatised on BBC Radio 4 in August 2019). Captured, abducted and married into Boko Haram, the narrator of this story witnesses and suffers the horrors of a community of men governed by a brutal code of violence.

    ** Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2020 **
    Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction
    Shortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction

    A Times, Evening Standard and Financial Times Book of the Year

    I was a girl once, but not any more . . .

    A young woman, barely more than a girl herself, must learn to survive with a child of her own, in a world which seems entirely consumed by madness.

    As she navigates a landscape of terrors and trials, can she find a place of safety within a society blinkered by mistrust and denial?

    'Astonishing.' New Statesman

    'Raw and transfixing.' Observer

    'Miraculous . . . Extraordinary.' Mail on Sunday

    'A masterpiece.' Irish Independent

    'Mesmerising.' Sunday Times

    'Devastating and moving.' Daily Telegraph