Books like Country girl by Edna O’Brien

A moving portrait of the Hegarty family as Dublin siblings gather for the wake of their drowned brother Liam, revealing buried secrets that span three generations of Irish life.

Ann Patchett shares a candid memoir that traces her commitments to writing, family, and friendship, revealing the everyday moments that sustain a happy marriage and a vibrant creative life.

Near her hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty confronts the impending closure of Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital, revealing her life and Ireland’s hidden past through journals with her psychiatrist, Dr Grene.

Chilean author Isabel Allende's account of her homeland's history, politics, and her own experiences as an immigrant in the United States post-September 11.

Deborah Levy’s memoir, The Cost of Living, interrogates the social limits imposed on women and the yearning for a self‑authored life, weaving reflections on feminism and literary influences.

When Father's urgent London trip turns into palace intrigue, Louise Engleston finds herself hosted by a wealthy duchess and caught in a perilous plot involving smugglers, blackmail, and the ruthless Lord Castleton.

After a swift breakup with her first love, Edie meets the warm, country‑loving Jake. As they grow close, she wonders if he can truly heal her heart and if a new love is possible.

Growing up in 1920s County Cork, Maureen O’Hanlon—later Kinky Kincaid—navigates rural life while discovering her psychic gift for seeing fairies, spirits, and the banshee.

In the streets of North Carolina, Niya leads the drug crew Money Hungry Bitches, forcing her loyal women to choose between ambition and the lives they love.

A poignant memoir about a child's acceptance of her uncertain past and a life adrift in modern America.

Three generations of an estranged Irish family reunite in a decaying coastal home to care for Helen's brother Declan, who is dying of AIDS, and confront their shared pasts and unresolved relationships during the early 1990s.

Biography of Lady Caroline Blackwood, capturing her as a provocative and original figure in contemporary letters of the twentieth century.

From a Dublin hospital bed, an ailing elderly woman reflects on her life—from emigrating to America in the 1920s, to her Irish marriage and motherhood—anticipating a visit from her estranged daughter, Eleanora.

Edna O’Brien’s collection of thirty-one short stories offers a layered portrait of Ireland, exploring coming‑of‑age, class, family, love and the longing to return home.

We know the facts of Mary Shelley's life in some detail--the death of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, within days of her birth; the upbringing in the house of her father, William Godwin, in a house full of radical thinkers, poets, philosophers, and writers; her elopement, at the age of seventeen, with Percy Shelley; the years of peripatetic travel across Europe that followed. But there has been no literary biography written this century, and previous books have ignored the real person--what she actually thought and felt and why she did what she did--despite the fact that Mary and her group of second-generation Romantics were extremely interested in the psychological aspect of life. In this probing narrative, Fiona Sampson pursues Mary Shelley through her turbulent life, much as Victor Frankenstein tracked his monster across the arctic wastes. Sampson has written a book that finally answers the question of how it was that a nineteen-year-old came to write a novel so dark, mysterious, anguished, and psychologically astute that it continues to resonate two centuries later. No previous biographer has ever truly considered this question, let alone answered it. We know the facts of Mary Shelley's life in some detail, but previous books have ignored the real person-- what she actually thought and felt and why she did what she did. Sampson pursues Mary Shelley through her turbulent life, and answers the question of how it was that a nineteen-year-old came to write a novel so dark, mysterious, anguished, and psychologically astute that it continues to resonate two centuries later. -- adapted from jacket.