Poignant tale of an American poet and Irish maid
Fiction: Miss Emily
By Nuala O’Connor
Sandstone Press, €23
Reviewed by Sarah Gilmartin
The Dublin writer Nuala O’Connor should get the audience she deserves with her third novel Miss Emily. A beautifully written story about the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson and her Irish maid Ada Concannon, O’Connor is overdue a larger audience for her carefully crafted fiction that gut-punches the reader with its honesty and emotion.
As with her previous novels, particularly The ...