Author(s): Carlo Gebler,
Binding: Hardback,
Date of Publication: 11/09/2026,
Pagination: 224 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: New Island Books,
Published By: NEW ISLAND BOOKS ,
Book Classification: Biography: literary,
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781835940570
As Ireland's iconic Edna O'Brien confronts the brutal realities of old age - pain, confusion, hospitals, carers, the battle to keep writing - the world she built through language begins to contract. Her son Carlo tracks every flicker of resilience and every devastating loss, from the comic to the catastrophic, in a narrative that moves with the real rhythm of decline: hope, setback, defiance, collapse, repeat. At once a document of artistic obsession and a confrontation with mortality, No One Tells You asks what remains when work falters, independence vanishes and the child becomes the witness.