Edna O'Brien's beloved classics plunge us into the lives and loves of
two girls in rural 1950s Ireland (with a new foreword by Eimear
McBride). 'The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose - there's no one
like Edna O'Brien ... Beautiful.' Anne Enright 'Novels of heart-breaking
empathy, rigorous honesty and peerless beauty.' Eimear
McBride Caithleen 'Kate'
Brady and Bridget 'Baba' Brennan are growing up in a repressive Irish
village after World War II.
Kate is a romantic, looking for
love; Baba is a reckless survivor. After being expelled from convent
school, they dream of the bright lights of Dublin - and are rewarded
with bad luck and bad sex; marry for the wrong reasons; but continue to
fight the expectations forced upon 'girls' of every era to become brave
new women. Edna O'Brien's debut novels revolutionised Irish literature
in the 1960s.
Banned by the authorities as 'indecent' and
burned by the clergy, they were notorious for their frank portrayal of
sexual desire: but scandal turned to fame, and made this glorious
coming-of-age tale an instant classic that inspires and delights readers
to this day.
The Country Girls Trilogy : The Country Girls; The Lonely Girl; Girls in their Married Bliss - Edna O'Brien
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