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  1. 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
  2. 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.

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  3. Book 1-3. The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue. by Edna O'Brien. 3.89 · 3,572 Ratings · 376 Reviews · published 1986 · 40 editions. “Delicious...wholly original...sensitive as a harp…. Want to Read.

  4. Jan 1, 2001 · From the acclaimed author of Country Girl: A Memoir Kate and Baba are two ambitious Irish country girls in search of life: romantic Kate seeks love, while pragmatic Baba will take whatever she can get. Together they set out to conquer Dublin and the world.

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  5. The Country Girls Trilogy, three novels by Edna OBrien 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.

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  6. Apr 25, 2013 · When Edna O'Brien wrote The Country Girls in 1960, the book was acclaimed by critics, banned by the Irish Censorship Board and burned in churches for suggesting that the two small-town girls...

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  8. Jun 25, 2002 · After being expelled from an Irish convent, two young Irish country girls--Kate, an incurable romantic, and Baba, a reckless individualist--choose husbands in London and find married life more difficult than they had imagined.

    • Edna O'Brien
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