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With extraordinary charm and skill, Kate O'Brien shares the enchanting and heartily real story of her childhood in Limerick. Born in 1897, her mother had died when she and her eight brothers and sister were very young, and they were brought up by five remarkably individual aunts who made 'from five to forty-five different sorts of impressions' on their family life.
Hardcover first edition , 1963 Heinemann UK .
Kathleen Mary Louise "Kate" O'Brien, was an Irish novelist and playwright.
After the success of her play, Distinguished Villa in 1926, she took to full-time writing and was awarded the 1931 James Tait Black Prize for her novel Without My Cloak. She is best known for her 1934 novel The Ante-Room, her 1941 novel The Land of Spices and the 1946 novel That Lady. Many of her books dealt with issues of female sexuality — with several exploring gay/lesbian themes — and both Mary Lavelle and The Land of Spices were banned in Ireland. She also wrote travel books, or rather accounts of places and experiences, on both Ireland and Spain, a country she loved, and which features in a number of her novels. She lived much of her later life in England and died in Canterbury in 1974; she is buried in Faversham Cemetery.
