August is a Wicked Month

<b>Lose yourself in the legendary Edna O'Brien's simmering tale of a woman rediscovering herself on the French Riviera ...</b><br><b></b><br><b>'The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose - there's no one like Edna O'Brien ... Beautiful.'<i> Anne Enright </i></b><br><br><b>'Novels of heart-breaking empathy, rigorous honesty and peerless beauty.' <i>Eimear McBride</i></b><br><br><b>'Brilliant and brave.' <i>Ann Patchett</i></b><br><br><b>'A treasure.' <i>New York Times</i></b><br><br>Separated from her husband and young son, Ellen leaves behind the loneliness of London for a new life of excitement and sexual freedom:a 'jaunt into iniquity' on the gorgeous French Riviera. However, she soon discovers that independence blurs into loneliness, especially when she receives some heart-breaking news ...<br><br>Banned in several countries on first publication, <b>Edna O'Brien's <i>August is a Wicked Month</i> </b>is a shimmering, sensual tale of a woman rediscovering herself - and it feels just as glorious, radical, and escapist as today.<br><b></b><br><b>'O'Brien simply offers her characters and they come to us living.</b>'<i> V.S. Naipaul</i><br><b></b><br><b>'One of the greatest Irish writers, of this or any era.' <i>Sunday Independent</i></b><br><b></b><br><b>'One of our bravest and best novelists<i>' Irish Times</i></b><br><b></b><br><b>'A literary great.'<i> Times</i></b>