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The Country Girls (Country Girls Trilogy 1)
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Product Description
It is the early 1960s in a country village in Ireland. Caithleen Brady and her attractive friend Baba are on the verge of womanhood and dreaming of spreading their wings in a wider world; of discovering love and luxury and liquor and above all, fun. With bawdy innocence, shrewd for all their inexperience, the girls romp their way through convent school to the bright lights of Dublin - where Caithleen finds that suave, idealised lovers rarely survive the real world
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #137599 in Books
- Published on: 2007-09-05
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 240 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Edna O'Brien is the author of 24 books. She was the winner of the 1993 Writers' Guild Prize for Fiction. In 2001 her novel, In the Forest - about a brutal murder on the west coast - caused a furore throughout Ireland and was the subject of a BBC Omnibus film.
Customer Reviews
A Relentlessly Grim Waste of Time
The characters are either victims or bullies, and the story is so mercilessly, one-notedly grim that I wanted an anti-depressant after reading it. I actively hoped for the murder of one character, and prayed for the protagonist to grow a spine at some point, but she never did. I kept hearing about Edna O'Brien's humor, and searched for in these pages in vain. I can't share the litany of miseries Caithleen endures without spoiling the story for anyone who might want to read it, but I will settle for saying that I won't be bothering with the rest of the trilogy.
Well paced, well written and entertaining
Sometimes this book reminded me of the comedy series "Father Ted" with its Irish sayings and Catholic innocence.
The story moves along really well. The writing is lyrical. It perfectly illustrates the complexities of female relationships. It's set in the 1960s, around my mother's coming of age years, and it really reminds me of the stories she tells of her girlhood.
Why only four stars? I didn't feel the story was enough, I needed more. But it is part of a trilogy, and I'm yet to read the others, so hopefully I won't be disappointed.
