Her novels include All Summer (2003), which won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and Tenderwire (2006), which was shortlisted for the 2007 Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award as well as the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.
Kilroy's latest novel is Soldier Sailor.
At the Guardian she tagged ten "novels that capture motherhood in an interesting way," including:
After Birth by Elisa AlbertRead about another entry on the list.
This intelligent novel is about the bawling boring baby months that feel like years, as described by an acerbic intellectual American mom. There is fury, depression, loneliness and love but it is the friendship forged between two new mothers that shines.
The Page 69 Test: After Birth.
See Elisa Albert's nine revelatory books about motherhood.
--Marshal Zeringue
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