"The Country Girls" by Edna O'Brien

The Country Girls" by Edna O'Brien. Three novels and an epilogue. With a new introduction by Eimear McBride. This book charts the progress of women's lives from the high spirits of youth to the chill of age, these are as Eimear McBride says in her introduction," novels of heartbreaking empathy, rigorous honesty, and peerless beauty." The Country Girls is both painful and hilarious, and remains one of the major accomplishments of Edna O'Brien's extraordinary career.