Brenda Maddox presents a richly researched biography of Nora Barnacle Joyce, the lifelong companion and wife of James Joyce. Challenging the common portrayal of Nora as an uneducated bystander, the book reveals her intelligence, resilience, wit, and profound influence on Joyce's life and literary work. Following her journey from Galway to Dublin, Trieste, Zurich, and Paris, the biography explores the couple's unconventional relationship, family life, financial struggles, and the creation of some of the twentieth century's greatest literary works, while restoring Nora to her rightful place in literary history.

Brenda Maddox

Nora. A Biography of Nora Joyce