![]() ![]() The Green Road is the modern Irish family dissected with Enright’s trademark wit and intelligence – and a not so modern Irish mammy at the centre of it all. McLaughlin’s Dinosaurs features stories from the margins, each of which captures the lonely voice of the short story form. Foster is a beautifully observed story about a young girl sent to live with relations while her mother has yet another baby. Here are four wonderful books by Irish female writers published in the last decade: Claire Keegan’s Foster (2010), Danielle McLaughlin’s Dinosaurs on Other Planets (2015), Anne Enright’s The Green Road (2015) and Éilis Ní Dhuibhne’s Twelve Thousand Days (2018). In honour of International Women’s Day, I exercise my right to choose more than one author for this article. Claire Keegan’s work was chosen by three of them: On International Women’s Day, writers and critics picked the best works by women since 2000. ![]() ![]() The best books by women of the 21st century ![]()
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