Anne Enright Books in Order

Enright’s first story collection follows women and men through desire, awkwardness, faith, family pressure and moments of bizarre comedy. It’s an early look at the sharp, bodily concerns that would run through her later novels.

Grace works on a shabby Dublin game show and lives with a father whose wig no one mentions. When a melancholy angel named Stephen moves in, family history, faith, television and love collide in strange, funny ways.

In 1965 Dublin, a mother dies in childbirth and her twin daughters are separated. Maria and Rose grow up with a sense of missing history, moving through Dublin, London and New York toward the truth of their divided lives.

Eliza Lynch leaves Paris for Paraguay with Francisco Solano López, already pregnant and close to power. As his ambition drives the country toward war, her beauty, influence and survival become tangled in history’s wreckage.

Enright turns from fiction to the bodily, comic and exhausting realities of pregnancy, birth and early motherhood. These essays treat babies with wonder, honesty and a steady refusal to turn parenting into soft-focus myth.

Veronica Hegarty returns to her large Dublin family after her brother Liam’s death. As the wake gathers around him, she sifts memory, grief and half-buried family history to understand what broke him.

This second story collection turns everyday lives into quick, unsettling snapshots: bad sex, family holidays, new motherhood, loneliness and sudden ghosts. The pieces are short, sharp and often funny, even when the rooms get dark.

This omnibus gathers Enright’s short fiction from The Portable Virgin and Taking Pictures, plus other stories written across nearly two decades. The collection moves through marriage, motherhood, desire and loneliness in brief, unsentimental scenes.

Gina Moynihan looks back on the affair that pulled her away from her marriage and into Seán’s orbit. Set around Dublin during the boom years and their aftermath, the novel tracks desire, guilt and the child neither adult can ignore.

Rosaleen Madigan’s four adult children have scattered far from County Clare, but her decision to sell the family home brings them back for Christmas. Old loyalties, resentments and small kindnesses surface around the table.

Drawn from Making Babies, this short volume focuses on pregnancy, newborns, sleepless nights and the first strange stages of attachment. It’s a compact, funny and frank entry point into Enright’s writing on motherhood.

Norah looks back at her mother, Katherine O’Dell, an Irish theatre star whose public life hid private damage. As Norah pieces together Katherine’s secrets and a sudden crime, the novel becomes a sharp mother-daughter reckoning.

Collecting lectures, essays and short fiction from Enright’s time as Ireland’s first Laureate for Irish Fiction, No Authority looks at women’s voices, Irish writing and public life with a mix of argument, memory and story.

Nell McDaragh and her mother Carmel live in the long shadow of Phil McDaragh, the poet who abandoned Carmel as a child. Their linked stories explore love, inheritance, language and the damage a charming man can leave behind.

A career-spanning essay collection that gathers Enright’s writing on books, bodies, Ireland, politics and private life. Moving between memoir and criticism, Attention shows the nonfiction mind behind the novels.