Bibliograph

Girl, Edna O'brien, A Novel

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Girl, Edna O'brien, A Novel

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

Girl

Responsibility statement

Edna O'brien

Series statement

Country Girls Trilogy, bk. 2

Summary

This program is read by Laurence Olivier Award-winning actress, Sheila Atim. Girl, Edna O'Brien's hotly anticipated new novel, envisages the lives of the Boko Haram girls in a masterpiece of violence and tenderness. I was a girl once, but not anymore. So begins Girl, Edna O'Brien's harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest; and a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who returns home with a child blighted by enemy blood. From one of the century's greatest living authors, Girl is an unforgettable story of one victim's astonishing survival, and her unflinching faith in the redemption of the human heart

Target audience

adult

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