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Virago Modern Classic Book Club: Mary Lavelle by Kate O’Brien
This February our Book of the Month is Mary Lavelle by Kate O’Brien, a poignant and beautiful depiction of a young girl’s awakening in a foreign country. We will be celebrating this extraordinary novel and female Irish authors throughout the month.
She writes with almost poetic intensity of the ecstasy and anguish of love – Val Hennessy
Kate O’Brien (1897-1974), one of Ireland’s greatest and best-loved writers, was born in Limerick. As well as writing plays, travel and biography, she published nine wonderful novels.