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 literary fiction and short stories since her début novel, A Time Outworn in 1951, Friends With The Enemy is an elegant memoir that takes us from an artistic childhood in Dublin through travels in post-war Europe, encounters with establ...