Edna O'Brien's first novel The Country Girls and its sequels The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss changed the temperature of Irish literature in the 1960s.
The characters of Kate Brady and her friend Baba Brennan have inspired generation after generation of readers and writers, as we see them struggling against the confines of a rural Irish convent school; revelling in the bright lights of Dublin; and weathering the unexpected challenges of married life in London.
The passion, artistry, and courage of Edna O'Brien's vision in these novels - tender portraits of innocence and youth, love and passion, dreams and reality - resonate into the twenty-first century, and are illuminated by Eimear McBride's new foreword.
Edna O'Brien's first novel The Country Girls and its sequels The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss changed the temperature of Irish literature in the 1960s.
The characters of Kate Brady and her friend Baba Brennan have inspired generation after generation of readers and writers, as we see them struggling against the confines of a rural Irish convent school; revelling in the bright lights of Dublin; and weathering the unexpected challenges of married life in London.
The passion, artistry, and courage of Edna O'Brien's vision in these novels - tender portraits of innocence and youth, love and passion, dreams and reality - resonate into the twenty-first century, and are illuminated by Eimear McBride's new foreword.
Edna O'Brien's 'fabulous' (Anne Enright) beloved classics plunge us into the lives and loves of two girls in rural 1950s Ireland - with a foreword by Eimear McBride.
Edna O'Brien has written more than twenty works of fiction and
non-fiction, most recently the bestselling novel The Little Red
Chairs. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Irish
PEN Lifetime Achievement Award, the American National Arts Gold
Medal, and the Ulysses medal, as well as the Frank O'Connor Prize.
Born and raised in Ireland, she has lived in London for many years,
and was recently appointed a Dame of the British Empire for her
services to literature.
Eimear McBride is the author of two novels: The Lesser Bohemians
(James Tait Black Memorial Prize) and A Girl is a Half-formed Thing
(Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction, Irish Novel of the Year, the
Goldsmiths Prize, and others). She was the inaugural creative
fellow at the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading and
occasionally writes for the Guardian, TLS, New Statesman and the
Irish Times.
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