Nuala O’Faolain was an Irish writer celebrated for her incisive explorations of the human psyche and social dynamics. Her works, spanning memoirs, novels, and historical accounts, often delved into themes of identity, memory, and the search for meaning. Bringing a journalist's keen observation and an academic's depth, she crafted a compelling narrative style that drew readers into the complexities of human experience. Her literary legacy lies in her honest examination of the intricacies of modern life.
Having lived abroad for many years, Rosie decides that it's time to return to Dublin to look after her ageing aunt Min. Nothing much has changed in the area where Rosie grew up, and Min's increasing lack of interest in life begins to sap Rosie's spirit.
From one of Ireland's most talented journalists, an extraordinary fiction debut, compelling, colourful and romantic. Kathleen is a 49-year-old travel writer, an Irishwoman based in London who has not been back to Ireland since she was twenty. Her home is her office, her family and friends a few close colleagues. She has not experienced passion since she was young. When, over the course of a few weeks, the props of her life fall away one after another, it is to passion that she turns - not in her own life, but in the fragmentary account of a scandalous affair in 19th century rural Ireland, between the wife of a big Anglo-Irish landlord, and her servant. And so Kathleen is drawn back to Ireland, to see whether she can find out more...
Nuala O'Faolain wurde in Dublin als Tochter eines Journalisten geboren. Aufgewachsen in einer Großfamilie mit neun Kindern, verbrachte sie ihre Pubertät teilweise in einem katholisches Mädcheninternat. Später schlug sie sich zunächst als Kellnerin, Verkäuferin und Dienstmädchen durch. Schließlich wurde sie dann Dozentin an der Universität, Fernsehproduzentin und Journalistin. Ihre Erinnerungen wurden in Irland zum Bestseller. Nach zeitweiligem Aufenthalt in London, lebt sie heute wieder in ihrer Geburtsstadt.
A special commemorative edition with an introduction by acclaimed author June Caldwell. Are You Somebody? is the incredibly candid story of Nuala O'Faolain, born one of nine children into the penniless family of an overwhelmed mother and charming but absent father. Nuala O'Faolain was saved from a harrowing childhood by her love of books and reading. Though she ultimately became one of Ireland's best-known columnists, her professional success did little to ease her longing for a deep connection to the world. She pushed at the boundaries of the confining Catholic Ireland she grew up in and has distilled her experiences into a wisdom that could come only from a woman who refused to shrink from life. A runaway international best-seller, it was No. 1 on The New York Times best seller list. A strikingly vivid and starkly emotional memoir, Are You Somebody? is, like O'Faolain herself, a singular example of courage, honesty, and bold living.
Nuala O'Faolain attracted a huge amount of critical praise and a wide audience with the literary debut of Are You Somebody? Her midlife exploration of life's love, pain, loneliness, and self- discovery won her fans worldwide who write and tell her how her story has changed their lives. There are thousands who have yet to discover this extraordinary memoir of an Irish woman who has stepped away from the traditional roles to define herself and find contentment. They will make this paperback a long-selling classic.
A portrait of the legendary woman outlaw describes her childhood in post-famine Ireland, work as a confidence trickster and grifter in America, love affair with a big-league criminal, successful robbery of Paris's American Express, imprisonment, and later years. By the author of Are You Somebody? 75,000 first printing.
