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imagine...: 2019: Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless

Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless

2019

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Alan Yentob meets novelist Edna O’Brien to discuss sex, books and a lifetime of defiance.

Alan Yentob meets Irish novelist Edna O’Brien to discuss sex, books and a lifetime of defiance.

Edna O’Brien is one of the greatest literary talents and rule breakers of her generation. In 1960, her revolutionary debut novel ‘The Country Girls’ broke down social and sexual barriers for women, and was subsequently banned in her native country of Ireland. The unstoppable O’Brien continues to produce some of the most urgent work of her unparalleled career. Her eighteenth novel, ‘Girl’, a searing story inspired by the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram, will be published later this year. In this honest and engaging documentary, Alan Yentob meets Edna O’Brien to discuss sex, books and a lifetime of defiance.

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