The Country Girls

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The scandalous groundbreaking debut that set the world alight, from the beloved multi award-winning Irish author Edna O'Brien. 'Our oracle.' Patricia Lockwood 'The taboobreaking, the fabulous prosethere's no one like Edna O'Brien.' Anne Enright 'Surprising and beautiful and courageous . . . A beacon.' Megan Nolan We want to live. Drink gin. Squeeze into the front of big cars and drive up outside big hotels. We want to go places. Caithleen is a romantic: she dreams of finding a handsome man who will sweep her away and look after her. Her friend Baba thinks this makes her a right-looking eejit. What she wants is money and glamour. Life. As much of it as she can get. But neither love nor excitement seem possible in their small village, or their convent school. And when they finally make it to Dublin, they find that home isn't as easy to escape as they thought.

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Edna O'Brien wrote more than twenty prize-winning works of fiction, as well as plays and non-fiction, which have been translated into over thirty languages and awarded many literary honours. A trailblazing author, her debut novel The Country Girls was banned by the Irish censorship board in 1960 and publicly burned. Born and raised in the West of Ireland, O'Brien lived in London for many years before her death in July 2024.

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