Edna O'Brien

When a wanted war criminal, masquerading as a healer, settles in a small west coast Irish village, the community are in thrall. One woman, Fidelma McBride, falls under his spell and in this searing novel, Edna O'Brien charts the consequence of that fatal attraction. This is a story about love, the artifice of evil and the terrible necessity of acco

Spanning five decades of writing, 'The Love Object' takes the most memorable and successful stories from collections like 'A Scandalous Woman' and 'Saints and Sinners'; stories that have bewitched generation after generation. Here you will find stories about families, feuds, love and land, enchantment, disenchantment, and throughout, the manifold b