The Country Girls Trilogy The Country Girls Book one of three. This book exudes charm. It’s about two friends growing up in rural Ireland and sort of waiting on the cusp of their lives to start. Caithleen is rambunctious and energetic and sexually charged, even in her teens, and dreams of running off to the “big city” for her education and her adventures. Whereas Bridget is more staid and safe. They both end up in school, have some minor misadventures, and come home in their […]
Unluck of the Irish
Edna O’Brien’s Country Girls Trilogy was originally released as three separate novels: The Country Girls (1960), The Lonely Girl (1962) and Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964). This collected edition from 1986 includes an Epilogue as well, rounding out the story of two Irish girls who grow up, fall in and out of love, and get involved in bad relationships in the 1950s/early 1960s. O’Brien’s writing is a delight to read. She mixes humor with sadness and tragedy. Caithleen Brady (Kate) and Bridget Brennan (Baba) […]