Join us in Cork on 6th July 2024 for a gorgeous day of literature, ladies, literary chats, and so in in the beautiful, historic surroundings of Glenville Park.
Miss Emily
Miss Emily – Best 21stC Irish Fiction
Delighted that The Sunday Times has included my novel about Emily Dickinson, Miss Emily, in its Irish fiction of the 21st Century list. (Thank you, Bert Wright!)
IRISH HISTORICAL FICTION EVENT – Dublin
This fantastic event, organised by writer Nicola Cassidy, is on Saturday 4th April in Hodges Figgis book shop in Dublin. It’s a free, non-ticketed event – all welcome!
VALENTINE’S DAY – EMILY DICKINSON
Nuala, along with several other Irish writers, was asked by the Irish Times to choose a love poem for Valentine’s Day. She picked Emily Dickinson’s ‘Wild Nights’. See the article here.
Miss Emily Reviews
The Noise of Time initially appears to be the latest addition to a hybrid literary form with which we are increasingly familiar – the fictional biography. Recent examples range from Colm Tóibin’s The Master (which presented a repressed and unhappy Henry James) to Nuala O’Connor’s excellent Miss Emily (which gave us a wilful and tormented Emily Dickinson).
Alex Preston, The Guardian
“…Irish writer Nuala O’Connor breathes new life into reclusive poet Emily Dickinson in her mesmerizing U.S. debut. Like one of Dickinson’s poems, the deceptively simple narrative packs a powerful punch…”
Margaret Flanagan in Booklist
“Miss Emily is a triumph of a novel, creating an utterly human and believable Emily Dickinson through the eyes of an enchanting and complex fictional Irish woman. Their story is smart and witty and harrowing and brilliantly revelatory of the interplay of life and inspiration in a nascent great artist. And all this is done in prose that has the same condensed, particularizing power of Dickinson’s poetry. Nuala O’Connor has long been one of my favorite contemporary Irish writers. She will certainly find an ardently admiring American audience with this extraordinary novel.”
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler