The Country Girls
Book description
The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls trilogy begins in August 2019.
Edna O'Brien's wonderful, wild and moving novel shocked the nation on its publication in 1960. Adapted for the stage by the author, The Country Girls, the play, is a highly theatrical and free-flowing telling…
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Edna O’Brien’s work makes me laugh and cry at the same time!
The Country Girls is a rollicking tale of two girls from rural Ireland in the 1950s, convent-educated, who leave home after their secondary school graduation to seek freedom and fun in the big city of Dublin.
Not quite Sex in the City, but a reader will laugh with the girls and sympathize with their troubles with men and work.
From Marian's list on Ireland and the Irish.
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