Love and tragedy converge in a seaside town in
The High Road
, a newly reissued novel from Edna O’Brien, the author of
Girl
and “one of the most celebrated writers in the English language” (NPR’s
Weekend Edition
)
This richly peopled, compellingly readable novel explores the many lives of women—as mystic, mother, daughter, and lover. There is Iris, with her “winsome wonsome” ways, no longer young; there is Charlotte, a troubled debutante who has fled from society; and there is the narrator, Anna, who feels that her emotional life has folded until she meets a young Spanish girl named Catalina.
Set in a seaside enclave on the Mediterranean coast,
is a passionate account of lost love and the return to loving, where currents of regret and loneliness clash with a fiery instinct for survival.