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2002 novel by Edna O'Brien For the 1944 book by Marie Hall Ets, see In the Forest (picture book).

In the Forest
First edition cover (US)
Author	Edna O'Brien
Audio read by	Stephen Rea
Language	English
Genre	novel
Set in	west of Ireland, 1980s–90s
Publisher	Weidenfeld (UK) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (US)
Publication place	Republic of Ireland
Media type	Print: hardback
Pages	208
ISBN	978-0-618-19730-9
Dewey Decimal	823.92
LC Class	PR6065.B7 I5
Preceded by	Wild Decembers
Followed by	The Light of Evening

In the Forest is a 2002 novel by Irish novelist Edna O'Brien. The novel is set in Ireland, and is based on a triple homicide: the 1994 murder of Imelda Riney, her son Liam and Catholic priest Fr Joe Walsh by Brendan O'Donnell.

References

"In The Forest [Audio], Edna O'Brien Stephen Rea (Read ) - Shop Online for Books in the United States". www.fishpond.com.
"A fiction too far". The Irish Times.
"Fiction Book Review: IN THE FOREST by Edna O'Brien". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
"The country girl's home truths". The Guardian. 3 May 2002. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
Crain, Caleb (7 April 2002). "The Dead". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
FitzHerbert, Claudia. "She played with fire". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2016.

v t e Works by Edna O'Brien
Novels	The Country Girls (1960) Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964) August Is a Wicked Month (1965) Casualties of Peace (1966) A Pagan Place (1970) The High Road (1988) Time and Tide (1992) House of Splendid Isolation (1994) Down by the River (1996) Wild Decembers (1999) In the Forest (2002) The Light of Evening (2006) The Little Red Chairs (2015) Girl (2019)
Short story collections	Saints and Sinners (2011)
Drama	A Pagan Place (1970)
Non-fiction	Country Girl (2012)

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