Description
Two inseparable friends, Caithleen “Kate” Brady and Bridget “Baba” Brennan, come of age in mid-20th-century Ireland, where love, desire, and ambition collide with rigid social expectations. From convent school to the streets of Dublin, their bond is tested by envy, betrayal, and the consequences of choices they can’t take back. Across a trilogy that follows their shifting fortunes through romance and upheaval, the novel explores the private cost of public silence—especially around sexuality, family violence, and the search for selfhood. Written with Edna O’Brien’s sharp emotional candor and lyrical immediacy, this landmark work captures friendship as both refuge and risk, illuminating how young women learn what freedom truly costs.
Available Editions
hardcover
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
Published Jan 1, 1995
224 pages
ISBN: 9780747521037
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Details
First Published
1960
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien.