The first collection of non-fiction writings by Booker Prize winner Anne Enright on culture, literature, and her own life.

"Anne Enright may be Ireland's greatest living writer" THE TIMES

"A pleasure to read" MAGGIE O'FARRELL

For thirty years, Anne Enright has been paying attention: she offers her clear and distinctive perspective on the world, literature, and her own life, sharing her precise observations with us.

These essays, collected from throughout Enright's career, take us from Dublin to Galway, from Canada to Honduras. They explore Enright's family history and examine the voices of women and the restrained bodies in society and literature. They offer new viewpoints for writers such as Alice Munro, Toni Morrison, James Joyce, Helen Garner, and Angela Carter.

In Enright’s fiction, language can transform, fracture, revive, and set free. In these essays, she speaks to us directly. Electric, investigative, and explosive, they are a defining collection from one of our most distinguished literary voices.

"The best essayist alive" MEGAN NOLAN, OBSERVER

"Confirms the intelligence, compassion, and humor behind her novels" INDEPENDENT

"A triumph antidote to a crazy, sad world" EIMEAR MCBRIDE

"So awake, so adaptable, so alive" LUCY CALDWELL