About the Book

Lose yourself in the legendary Edna O'Brien's simmering romantic tale of a woman rediscovering herself on the French Riviera ...

Reviews

The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose - there's no one like Edna O'Brien. Anne Enright

Novels of heart-breaking empathy, rigorous honesty and peerless beauty. Eimear McBride

Surprising and beautiful and courageous .. A beacon. Megan Nolan

Glittering energy. Colm Tóibín

Brilliant and brave. Ann Patchett

Plot Summary

Separated from her husband and young son, Ellen leaves behind the loneliness of London for a new life of excitement and sexual freedom: a jaunt into iniquity on the gorgeous French Riviera. However, she soon discovers that independence blurs into loneliness, especially when she receives some heart-breaking news ...

Additional Information

Banned in several countries on first publication, August is a Wicked Month is a shimmering, sensual tale of a woman rediscovering herself - and it feels just as glorious, radical, and escapist as today.