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Banned in several countries upon first publication, August is a Wicked Month is a simmering tale of a woman rediscovering herself on the French Riviera. Separated from her husband and with her young son away, Ellen leaves behind the loneliness of London for a new life of excitement and sexual freedom. But she soon discovers that independence isn’t quite so straightforward.
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Banned in several countries upon first publication, August is a Wicked Month is a simmering tale of a woman rediscovering herself on the French Riviera. Separated from her husband and with her young son away, Ellen leaves behind the loneliness of London for a new life of excitement and sexual freedom. But she soon discovers that independence isn’t quite so straightforward.
Edna O’Brien’s first novel, The Country Girls, was banned and burned in her native Ireland, but she is now considered a conerstone of Irish literary cannon. Her work brings the interior lives of Irish women – including their sex lives – to the fore through her fiction in a way that had rarely been done before.