Nuala O’Faolain (1940–2008) was one of Ireland’s best-loved journalists and writers. She came to international attention and received critical acclaim for her two volumes of memoir, Are you Somebody? (1996) and Almost There (2003). She also wrote the novel, My Dream of You (2001), and a history with commentary, The Story of Chicago May(2005). Her first three books were all New York Times Bestsellers.

O’Faolain is still that ferociously truth-telling woman … She has a tangy story-telling style, nurtured in a mordant Irish sense of irony and an Oxford-trained sleekness of thought. The most vivid of her recollections have the rush of elegant daydreaming … It is such unrepentant honesty – and her almost childlike determination to do better – that gives her book its strength.

Nuala O’Faolain (1940–2008) was one of Ireland’s best-loved journalists and writers. She came to international attention and received critical acclaim for her two volumes of memoir, Are you Somebody? (1996) and Almost There (2003). She also wrote the novel, My Dream of You (2001), and a history with commentary, The Story of Chicago May(2005). Her first three books were all New York Times Bestsellers.

O’Faolain is still that ferociously truth-telling woman … She has a tangy story-telling style, nurtured in a mordant Irish sense of irony and an Oxford-trained sleekness of thought. The most vivid of her recollections have the rush of elegant daydreaming … It is such unrepentant honesty – and her almost childlike determination to do better – that gives her book its strength.

Nuala O’Faolain (1940–2008) was one of Ireland’s best-loved journalists and writers. She came to international attention and received critical acclaim for her two volumes of memoir, Are you Somebody? (1996) and Almost There (2003). She also wrote the novel, My Dream of You (2001), and a history with commentary, The Story of Chicago May(2005). Her first three books were all New York Times Bestsellers.

O’Faolain is still that ferociously truth-telling woman … She has a tangy story-telling style, nurtured in a mordant Irish sense of irony and an Oxford-trained sleekness of thought. The most vivid of her recollections have the rush of elegant daydreaming … It is such unrepentant honesty – and her almost childlike determination to do better – that gives her book its strength.