‘She could be so queenly and dominating, but then totally wounded by criticism’ – The Irish Times
About three-quarters of the way through Sinéad O’Shea’s new documentary, Blue Road, about the writer Edna O’Brien, the camera lingers on a well-thumbed Marcel Proust biography with a Harrods receipt as a bookmark. We see many other things in the London apartment where this footage is recorded – cake tins, Christmas cards, a walking frame, … Read more