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Biographical note
Kate O'Brien (1897-1974) lived in London and also in Spain, where she developed a passionate and enduring love of Spanish literature and culture. One of the twentieth century's greatest novelists, her fiction broke new ground in Irish writing by focusing on the prosperous Catholic bourgeoisie and by giving central importance to women's struggle for selfhood in a rigidly sex-stereotyped society.This subtle and beautifully constructed novel deals with the conflict between human and divine love
Sunday Times
If novels can be music, this is a novel with perfect pitch
- Clare Boylan,
A fuller appreciation of modern literature and a greater understanding of twentieth century Ireland
Irish Times
O'Brien exquisitely evokes the harem atmosphere of convent life, the beauty and the silence, the bickering and the cruelties . . . If novels can be music, this is a novel with perfect pitch
Clare Boylan
A wonderful book, a land to be revisited
Irish Times
This subtle and beautifully constructed novel deals with the conflict between human and divine love
Sunday Times