Girls in Their Married Bliss
By Edna O'Brien
1964
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Average Rating
186
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In the third volume in the acclaimed Country Girls trilogy, which began with The Country Girls and The Lonely Girl, Kate and Baba, two ambitious Irish country girls, take on the bright lights of Dublin as they find romantic misadventures, unexpected trials, and love. Reprint.
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Author
Edna O'Brien
Author · 37 books
Edna O’Brien is an award-winning Irish author of novels, plays, and short stories, has been hailed as one of the greatest chroniclers of the female experience in the twentieth century. She is the 2011 recipient of the Frank O’Connor Prize, awarded for her short story collection Saints and Sinners. She has also received, among other honors, the Irish PEN Award for Literature, the Ulysses Medal from University College Dublin, and a lifetime achievement award from the Irish Literary Academy. Her 1960 debut novel, The Country Girl, was banned in her native Ireland for its groundbreaking depictions of female sexuality. Notable works also include August Is a Wicked Month (1965), A Pagan Place (1970), Lantern Slides (1990), and The Light of Evening (2006). O’Brien lives in London.
