Editor's Pick
The Country Girls
by Edna O'Brien
4.1
Caithleen Brady and Baba Brennan grow up in rural Clare in the 1950s, are sent to a convent school after Caithleen's alcoholic father threatens her mother, then escape to Dublin and the freedoms it promises. O'Brien's debut was banned in Ireland on publication — it described female desire and Catholic repression with unprecedented frankness.
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