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RICHARD KAY: Her writing on women and sex scandalised the Catholic church in Ireland. But it was her own riotous love ...
With her tumbling auburn hair, green eyes, alabaster skin and seductive Irish brogue, Edna O'Brien was as glamorous as any of the women whose lives filled the pages of her best-selling novels. But there was one critical difference: a delicious aura of …