A Time Outworn (2nd ed.)

Valentine's Day 2025 marks the centenary of the birth of Irish writer Val Mulkerns. To celebrate, 451 Editions brings out a special edition of her widely-acclaimed first novel, A Time Outworn. Originally published by Chatto and Windus in 1951, it's a coming of age story set in Ireland just after the Second World War. The anniversary edition features a foreword by Carlo Gébler, and an introduction drawn from Mulkerns's late 1940s diaries, by her daughter Maev Kennedy. The official publication dat