Friends With The Enemy: a memoir

Val Mulkerns has been described by Sebastian Barry as, “a masterly writer in the tradition of Seán Ó Faoláin” and Anne Enright notes that in her work , “liberalising, Shavian voices form a neglected strand of the Irish tradition.” After publishing ten books of fiction and short stories since her début novel in 1951, "Friends With The Enemy" is an elegant memoir, which takes us from an artistic childhood in Dublin through travels in post-war Europe, encounters with established authors in 1950s Ireland, and her own experience over almost seventy years as a writer and journalist in Ireland.