The first collection of Booker Prize-winning writer Anne Enright's non-fiction writing about
culture literature and her own life 'Anne Enright might just be Ireland's greatest living
writer' The Times 'One of the most gifted writers working in English today' Jennifer Egan
For thirty years Anne Enright has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze
across the world literature and her own life and gifting us with her precise insights. These
essays collated from across Enright's career take us from Dublin to Galway Canada to
Honduras. They delve into Enright's own family history and explore the free voices and
controlled bodies of women in society and fiction. She offers new perspectives on writers
including Alice Munro Toni Morrison James Joyce Helen Garner and Angela Carter. In
Enright's fiction speech can transform rupture enliven and liberate. In these essays she
speaks to us directly. Electrifying probing and exuberant this is a defining collection from
one of our most distinguished literary voices. Praise for The Wren The Wren: 'A magnificent
novel' SALLY ROONEY 'A triumph...treasure it' Sunday Times 'One of the great living writers
on the subject of family' New York Times 'A must-read' MARGARET ATWOOD (on Twitter) 'A
pleasure from beginning to end' Irish Times
