House of Splendid Isolation
by Edna O'Brien

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Book Review: Female writer gets it right
Summary: 5 Stars

She has these two unlikely people, each with their grievously painful stories, come to know and respect each other. She becomes like Mother Ireland (Cathleen ni Houlihan) to him, and he becomes to her like the child that she never had, the one she aborted.

It is a book that is about understanding and forgiveness, a theme amazingly and ultimately spoken through the voice of the aborted child itself. In the first chapter, this dead child's spirit hates her mother and wants her to suffer, but in the end, she understands and forgives. That is what the child prays for in the end, understanding and forgiveness.

Summary of House of Splendid Isolation

With extraordinary skill and empathy, Edna O'Brien shows two faces of a divided land, the yearnings of a woman whose youthful joy was broken and the intransigent idealism of her captor. Brave and moving, HOUSE OF SPLENDID ISOLATION is Edna O'Brien at her very best.

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