The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch

Proof copy. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 231, [1 (blank)]. Glossy pictorial card wraps.

Signed and dated – "13.X.2007" – by author to title page at Manchester's Whitworth Art Gallery as a guest of the Literary Festival, three days before being awarded the 2007 Man Booker Prize for her novel, The Gathering.

Author's third novel. A fictionalised account of Eliza Lynch, the 19th-century Irishwoman who became the consort of Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano López and the country's most powerful woman. Enright's writings have appeared in several magazines, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, the London Review of Books, the Dublin Review, and the Irish Times. "Enright is a spry surrealist who challenges the world with extraordinary, lancing sentences." –The Guardian