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The Country Girls follows the story of Cait and Baba, from their childhood in rural County Clare and convent school to Dublin as they struggle to understand live and search for love. Published in 1960 it was banned upon publication in Ireland for its portrayal of sex.
The Country Girls is a trilogy by Irish author Edna O'Brien. It consists of three novels: The Country Girls (1960), The Lonely Girl (1962), and Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964). The trilogy was re-released in 1986 in a single volume with a revised ending to Girls in Their Married Bliss and addition of an epilogue.
- Edna O'Brien
- 1960
The Country Girls Trilogy, three novels by Edna O’Brien that follow the lives of friends Kate and Baba from their school days and strict Roman Catholic upbringing in the Irish countryside to their disillusioned adulthood and failed marriages in London.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jan 1, 2001 · The smartest and most hilarious possible response to the catastrophe of being born female in the rural west of Ireland at mid-century. The trilogy actually encompasses three books – The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl, and Girls in Their Married Bliss.
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- Edna O'brien
Mar 7, 2019 · The Country Girls Trilogy written between 1960 - 1964, tells the story of two girls against a backdrop of 1950s Ireland. There are a number of characters, such as Mr Gentleman and Joanna, who are created so perfectly that you feel you know them.
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- Edna O'Brien
- Faber & Faber
Sep 16, 2017 · By turns beautiful and bawdy, funny and haunting, The Country Girls, often referred to as the quintessential tale of Irish girlhood, is not the novel that broke the mould: it is the one...
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Jan 1, 1988 · Written at a very young age, THE COUNTRY GIRLS established Edna O'Brien very early as an important Irish novelist, and in later books she would continue the adventures of her two heroines here, Caithleen (Kate) and Birdget (Baba), in their search for love and a place in the world.
- Edna O'Brien
