Amongst Women. London: Faber, 1990. First Edition, First Impression. Pp, 184. Orange cloth boards in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. A fine bright copy

Signed by the Author on the half-title page.

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, McGahern’s masterpiece, unites all the dominant themes of his work in a single, deeply affecting family drama. It centres on Michael Moran, a former IRA veteran whose domineering presence shapes—and stifles—the lives of his wife and daughters.