Description
Returning to Ireland with the intimacy of memory, this wandering narrative follows a young woman’s coming-of-age in rural Ireland during the 1930s—where beauty and brutality often share the same horizon. As she looks back on her childhood, a single shocking event reshapes her life and sets her on a path away from home, turning personal recollection into a wider meditation on belonging and escape. With Edna O’Brien’s unmistakable lyrical clarity and unsparing emotional honesty, the book explores themes of identity, family and community pressures, female desire, and the uneasy power of tradition. Part memoir, part literary journey, it captures a “uniquely wonderful, terrible, and peculiar” country through the lens of one life—vivid, haunted, and deeply human.
Available Editions
paperback
Faber and Faber
Published Sep 17, 1973
64 pages
ISBN: 9780571103164
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Details
First Published
1970
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for A Pagan Place by Edna O’Brien.