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International Women's Day

Mother, Life, Landscape, and the Connection

By Patricia Harty
IA Newsletter, August 3, 2024

March 8, 2018 by Leave a Comment

Edna O'Brien returns to the world of The Country Girls in her book The Light of Evening, with the mother-daughter relationship as the main theme.    “A writer’s life is like an athlete’s life. You train every day of your life and even then it may not be as good as one had hoped,” says Edna O’Brien, who has written over 20 books. Her latest, The Light of Evening, tells the … [Read more...] about Mother, Life, Landscape, and the Connection

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