Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

Mary McCarthy

Colm Tóibín

• A new edition of a major work by Mary McCarthy, one of the leading American intellectuals of the twentieth century.

• A classic autobiography of her Dickensian childhood in the 1920s, originally published in serial form in the New Yorker.

• Formally inventive – each chapter ends with a postscript by McCarthy on memory and her own narrative fallibility.