Edna O’Brien

Edna O'Brien's books are literary fiction, taking in story collections such as A Fanatic Heart, Down by the River and Lantern Slides alongside longer works. The Country Girls and The Lonely Girl sit among the coming-of-age titles, as do Saints and Sinners and Wild Decembers. House of Splendid Isolation is war fiction, while Night and The Little Red Chairs lean toward historical fiction.