by Catherine Dunne · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330488372
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«The Walled Garden» is the contemporary fiction novel by Catherine Dunne, published by Picador in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Beth left Dublin to make a life in London; her brother James stayed close to their mother, Alice. Now Alice is dying and Beth returns to the family home. Unable to speak, Alice writes letters to Beth to try to reconcile. The novel, set in Alice's final days, addresses childhood, aging and reconciliation.
The paperback edition was published on May 4, 2001.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in stories of family and reconciliation.
Catherine Dunne is an Irish writer. She was born in Dublin and studied English and Spanish at Trinity College, Dublin, before becoming a teacher. In 2013, she was awarded the Giovanni Boccaccio International Prize for Fiction for The Things We Know Now, which was published in Italy as Quel che ora sappiamo. Dunne received the Irish PEN Award for Literature in 2018.
