About the Author
Julia O’Faolain was born in London in 1932. Her novel No Country for Young Men was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She was brought up in Cork and Dublin, educated in Paris and Rome, and married an American historian in Florence. She lived for many years in the US, and now lives in London.
By the Same Author
SHORT STORIES
We Might See Sights! and Other Stories
Man in the Cellar
Daughters of Passion
NOVELS
Godded and Codded
Women in the Wall
No Country for Young Men
The Obedient Wife
The Irish Signorina
The Judas Cloth
Adam Gould
NON-FICTION
Trespassers
Co-editor with Lauro Martines:
Not in God’s Image: Women in History from the Greeks to the Victorians
As Julia Martines, translator:
Two Memoirs of Renaissance Florence:
The Diaries of Buonaccorso Pitti and Gregorio Dati
A Man of Parts by Piero Chiara
Copyright
First published in 2016
by Faber & Faber Ltd
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This ebook edition first published in 2016
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