The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch

Anne Enright

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An exquisitely written historical epic from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering, reissued in a beautiful new series style

‘Wonderfully written...a fascinating episode...which never loses its momentum or its sharpness of focus’ The Times

Beautiful Irishwoman Eliza Lynch became briefly, in the 1860s, the richest woman in the world. We first encounter her in Paris, in bed with Francisco Solano Lopez - heir to the untold wealth of Paraguay. The fruit of their congress will be extraordinary, and will send her across the Atlantic on a regal voyage to claim her glorious future in Asunción.

The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a bold and brilliantly achieved novel about sex, beauty and corruption at the end of the old world.

Published: 4 January 2011
ISBN: 9781409015420
Imprint: Vintage Digital
Format: EBook
Pages: 240

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About the author

Anne Enright

Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday’s Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and six novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road, which was the Bord Gáis Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature.

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Praise for The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch

The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is as sensuous and polished as an ornate painting
Daily Telegraph

Wonderfully written...a fascinating episode...which never loses its momentum or its sharpness of focus
The Times

She writes like a shrewd Irish Marquez
Observer

Enright [has a] white-knuckle grip on language... A dazzling circus of words
Guardian

Richness, texture, irony and razzle-dazzle are underpinned by a probing irony and a finely tuned historical sense... The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a star turn: what on earth will she do next?
Financial Times

Rich, flamboyant...dazzling with images
London Review of Books