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Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been.A contemporary novel of daughterhood and motherhood, from the Booker Prize-winning Irish author'A magnificent novel'SALLY ROONEY, author of NORMAL PEOPLE'Might just be her best yet'LOUISE KENNEDY, author of TRESPASSES'Gem-packed language... A must-read'MARGARET ATWOOD, author of T...

Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other, one life into another life, and the baby knew exactly how alone her mother had been.Nell - funny, brave and so much loved - is a young woman with adventure on her mind. As she sets out into the world, she finds her family history hard to escape. For her mother, Carmel, Nell's leaving home opens a space in he...

Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the famed Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless, full of verve and wit, twenty-two-year-old Nell leaves her mother Carmel's home to find her voice as a writer and live a life of her choosing. Carmel, too, knows the magic of her Daddo's poetry-and the broken promises within its verses. When Phil abandons the family, Carmel struggles to reconcile "the poet" ...

Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been.A contemporary novel of daughterhood and motherhood, from the Booker Prize-winning Irish author'The Wren, The Wren is a magnificent novel'SALLY ROONEY, author of NORMAL PEOPLE'Might just be her best yet'LOUISE KENNEDY, author of TRESPASSES'One of our greatest living novelists'THE ...

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Ein berührender Roman über die unerfüllte Liebe einer Tochter zu ihrer MutterNorah blickt zurück auf das Leben ihrer Mutter, der einst gefeierten Schauspielerin Katherine O'Dell: Von irischen Dorfbühnen hat sie es bis nach Hollywood geschafft. Doch mit zunehmendem Alter verblasste ihr Ruhm, sie betäubte sich mit Alkohol und Tabletten, bis es eines Tages zu einem bizarren Skandal kam: Ohne Vorwarnung schoss sie auf einen Filmproduzenten. Jeder ...

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Katherine O'Dell is an Irish theater legend turned Hollywood film star. Every moment of her life is a performance, with her daughter, Norah, standing in the wings. With age, alcohol, and dimming stardom, however, Katherine's grip on reality grows fitful. Fueled by a proud and long-simmering rage, she commits a shocking crime.As Norah revisits her mother's life of fiercely kept secrets, she confronts in turn the secrets of her own sexual and em...

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From the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truthsThis is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O'Dell, as told by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London's West End. Katherine's life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wings. But this ro...

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When Maria turns 20, she falls in love. She is in the wrong town, and he is the wrong sort of man. Going through his things, she finds a photo of herself when she was 12 years old. She has the same smile, but she is wearing the wrong clothes: she is the same, only different.Anne Enright's astonishing novel moves between Dublin, New York and London, following the lives of the real Maria and the girl in the picture. Stepping through the mirror t...

Anne Enright at her best: die beliebtesten Kurzgeschichten und weitere bisher unveröffentlichte ErzählungenDie unausgesprochenen Gefühle zwischen Mutter und Tochter, die Einsamkeit einer Affäre, der Stillstand einer großen Liebe: Mit schonungslosem Blick deckt Anne Enright in ihren Erzählungen alle Emotionen zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen auf. Die Grenzen zwischen Liebe und Hass, Glück und Enttäuschung sind fließend, und die Autorin trifft i...

Ein großer Roman über die unstillbare Sehnsucht nach AnerkennungKann man seine Mutter wirklich kennen? Norah blickt zurück auf das Leben ihrer Mutter, der einst gefeierten Schauspielerin Katherine O'Dell, die es von den irischen Dorfbühnen bis nach Hollywood geschafft hat. Doch mit zunehmendem Alter verblasste ihr Stern, sie betäubte sich mit Alkohol und Tabletten, bis es eines Tages zu einem bizarren Skandal kam: Ohne Vorwarnung schoss sie au...

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In three urgent pieces of non-fiction Anne Enright explores speech and silence in the lives of Irish women.

Katherine O'Dell is an Irish theater legend. As her daughter, Norah, retraces her mother's celebrated career and bohemian life, she delves into long-kept secrets, both her mother's and her own. Katherine began her career on Ireland's bus-and-truck circuit before making it to London's West End, Broadway, and finally Hollywood. Every moment of her life is a performance, with young Norah standing in the wings. But the mother-daughter romance cann...

From the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truthsThis is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O'Dell, as written by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London's West End. Katherine's life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wings. But this...

*LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020*From the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths. This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O'Dell, as told by her daughter Norah.

Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday¿s Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and six novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road, which was the Bord G¿ Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry G...