![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the book opens Ellen’s husband offers to take their young son - who divides his time between both parents - on a camping trip to Wales. It’s a relatively bleak tale, punctuated by moments of fleeting happiness, joy, excitement and danger, as Ellen seeks solace from her loneliness and emotional isolation. That candour comes in the form of the book’s protagonist, Ellen, a 27-year-old Irishwoman separated from her husband, who goes on a solo holiday to the French Riviera that doesn’t quite work out as planned. Fiction – paperback Faber & Faber 208 pages 2016.Įdna O’Brien’s fourth novel, August is a Wicked Month, was first published in 1965 and subsequently banned by the Irish censors for the story’s sexual candour. ![]()
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