A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY A Sunday Times,
Observer, Financial Times and Sunday Express Book of the Year When a man
who calls himself a faith healer arrives in a small, west-coast Irish
village, the community is soon under the spell of this charismatic stranger
from the Balkans. One woman in particular, Fidelma McBride, becomes
enthralled in a fatal attraction that leads to unimaginable consequences.
The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls trilogy
begins in August 2019. Her stunning new novel Girl will be published by
Faber in September 2019, available to pre-order now.