Johnny I Hardly Knew You

US: Penguin Books Ltd, 1979. Paperback. Good. Edna O'Brien is the author of 22 books. She was the winner of the 1993 Writ ers Guild Prize for Fiction. Her biography of James Joyce was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in June 1999. Her recent fiction has been about Irish topics - religion, politics, property. In 2001 her documentary novel, In t he Forest - about a brutal murder on the west coast - caused a furore in he r native Ireland. It was the subject of a BBC Omnibus film. --This text ref ers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. A story of a w oman who murders her lover, her son's best friend. It uncovers a world wher e love and hope walk hand in hand with barely concealed violence and despai r, where a woman is driven, despite herself, to exact revenge for suffering . The author also wrote "The Lonely Girl