The Land of Spices.

O'BRIEN, Kate.

Item Number: 115002

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1941.

First British edition of the Irish novelist’s coming of age tale. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.

O'Brien's fifth published novel, The Land of Spices is set in an Irish convent school and follows the story of young liberal woman whose impulses are often at odds with the rigid precepts of the convent's Order, particularly the Reverend Mother.