Kate O'Brien

Kate O'Brien (1897–1974) was an Irish novelist and playwright whose fiction includes Mary Lavelle, The Land of Spices, and Without My Cloak. The books range across historical and literary fiction, among them As Music and Splendour, which follows two Irish teenagers sent to Rome to train as opera singers, and Pray for the Wanderer. O'Brien's other titles include The Ante-room, That Lady, and The Last of Summer.