Attention by Anne Enright

Attention by Anne EnrightThe first collection of Booker Prize winning writer Anne Enright's non fiction writing about culture, literature and her own life 'Anne Enright might just be Ireland s greatest living writer' The Times 'One of the most gifted writers working in English today' Jennifer Egan For thirty years Anne Enright has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature and her own life, and gifting us with her precise

is a sex worker

the universe and our place in the world in seven enlightening lessons These seven short lessons guide us

Both elegiac and very

a wonderfully alert and moving portrait' Mail on Sunday

and last much longer

for a child

'Vanitas Vanitatum

a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea

and the prejudice against ageing

Amir texted his father: ‘They’re here

innovative hybrid forms and piercing lyrics: her second book Egg/Shell is a diptych

she thought