Julia O'Faolain

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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1975
  • Latest Book:
    March 2019
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Books in Order: 9 titles

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  • Daughters of Passion

    Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. Her story was this: she had been an orphan, her mother probably a whore. Brought up by nuns, she had lost her fa...

  • Under the Rose

    Julia O'Faolain is one of the most important Irish writers of the past half-century. Under the Rose is a selection of short stories taken from her many celebrated collections. These are stories about families and relationships, religion and politi...

  • Trespassers

  • The Judas Cloth

    1878: Pope Pius IX dies, after a misguided papacy that has stamped out liberalism, centralized papal power and witnessed the Pope's declaration of Infallibility. The Judas Cloth is told from the standpoint of Pius's son Nicola Santi, an orphan unawar...

  • Adam Gould

    “A writer of stunning quality, a novelist of irony and compassion.” -- Daily Telegraph

    Paris in the 1890s. Adam Gould, whose Anglo-Irish father has disowned him, works in a lunatic asylum run by the celebrated Dr. Blanche, some of whose ...

  • The Obedient Wife

    Temporarily abandoned by her overbearing husband amidst the chaos and decay of Los Angeles, Carla Verdi tries to run her home and bring up her son along traditional Italian lines. She finds solace in the friendship of Leo, a Catholic pries. 'Obedienc...

  • No Country for Young Men

    'Entertaining and rich in comedy . . . gripping and moving.' William Trevor Sister Judith Clancy is told that she must leave the protection of her convent and return to her family. So begins the unravelling of community ties which form this brilli...

  • Women in the Wall

    'I am hungry for your presence. I hanker for the great blaze of your glance which when you turn it on me, will burn out the husk of my body and draw my soul to you.' Julia O'Faolian's second novel, first published in 1973, offers a rich, vivid por...

  • The Irish Signorina

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    Julia O'Faolain's subtle, seductively plotted novel weaves together Ireland and Italy, romantic love and mystery... The invitation to visit the Cavalcantis at their family villa in Tuscany arrived quite unexpectedly. But in the wake of History finals...



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Julia O'Faolain has published 9 books.

Julia O'Faolain does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Daughters of Passion, was published in March 2019.

The first book by Julia O'Faolain, Women in the Wall, was published in May 1975.

No. Julia O'Faolain does not write books in series.
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