Episode 5
Edna rubs shoulders with the great of New York, while memories are sparked in London. Irish novelist Edna O'Brien concludes her astonishingly honest memoir.
The great Irish writer, Edna O'Brien, whose controverstial 1960 novel brought her both literary fame and notoriety, reads her astonishingly honest memoir of a literary life of high drama.
In today's episode: Edna rubs shoulders with the great and the good of New York, while back in London, her thoughts return to the past.
Author: Since her debut novel The Country Girls, Edna O'Brien has written more than twenty works of fiction along with a biography of James Joyce and Lord Byron.
Abridger: Miranda Davies
Producer: Justine Willett.
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