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A review by jess_mango
The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien
4.0
The Country Girls is the third novel I've read by Edna O'Brien. I enjoy her writing and will read more of her stuff. It is very approachable and readable. This one is one of those good old 1001 books to read before you die, so it also has that going for it.
Kate and Baba (Bridget) are best friends from rural Ireland in the 1950s. As teens, they are sent to a convent school that they get kicked out of. They go to larger towns and cities, finding jobs and romantic entanglements. The book is about the experience of lower-class Irish Catholic girls/women of the time and their coming of age and "loss of innocence," as it were ...The good and bad choices they make and how they impact their lives.
Kate and Baba (Bridget) are best friends from rural Ireland in the 1950s. As teens, they are sent to a convent school that they get kicked out of. They go to larger towns and cities, finding jobs and romantic entanglements. The book is about the experience of lower-class Irish Catholic girls/women of the time and their coming of age and "loss of innocence," as it were ...The good and bad choices they make and how they impact their lives.