One by One in the Darkness

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2003
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One by One in the Darkness follows a week in the lives of three sisters shortly before the start of the IRA ceasefire in 1994, undercut with the story of their childhood in Northern Ireland of the 1960s and 1970s. The history of both a family and a society, One by One in the Darkness confirms Deirdre Madden's reputation as one of Irish fiction's most outstanding talents.

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"One by One in the Darkness" follows a week in the lives of three sisters shortly before the start of the IRA ceasefire in 1994, undercut with the story of their childhood in Northern Ireland of the 1960s and 1970s. The history of both a family and a society, "One by One in the Darkness" confirms Deirdre Madden's reputation as one of Irish fiction's most outstanding talents.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 18 Sep 2003
ISBN 10: 0571175511
ISBN 13: 9780571175512
Book Overview: Shortlisted for the Writer's Guild Fiction Award. The author won a Hennessy Literary Award in 1980 and was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize for The Birds of the Innocent Wood .
Prizes: Shortlisted for Writer's Guild / Macallan Award Fiction Category 1996.

Author Bio

Deirdre Madden is from Toomebridge, County Antrim in Northern Ireland. She was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and at the University of East Anglia. In 1994 she was Writer-in-Residence at University College, Cork and in 1997 was Writer Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin. She has travelled widely in Europe and has spent extended periods of time in both France and Italy.Her novels include The Birds of Innocent Wood, for which she was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, Remembering Light and Stone, Nothing is Black, One By One in the Darkness, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and Authenticity. Deirdre Madden lives in Paris.