pickSecond in the Country Girls Trilogy, I read the first book back in 2014. I really enjoyed this coming of age book about childhood friends Kate and Baba who are growing up in Ireland. The girls friendship is steadfast even when Kate falls for an older married man which does not go over well with her alcoholic father and conservative Catholic town. #1001books
A bonus to having sooooo many #1001books yet to read is that I can usually count on having lots of books in my tbr for photo challenge prompts. 🙃
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pickAs I noted in my previous blurb on this book, she goes in deeper with a social critique of Ireland and how it treated women in the 1950s and 1960s in the second of The Country Girls Trilogy, while also capturing a certain amount of whimsy and heartache through great language and tone.
Here‘s the beautiful rule breaker O‘Brien. #ReadWomen
Edna O‘Brien‘s 2nd book is much more chilling in its depiction of the treatment of young Irish women. The quote here, where 4 men callously discuss how they can lock up an adult woman in an asylum w/o her say, is the most blatant. But it‘s the rest, the subtle undercutting by her older lover, the anonymous letter sent by a stranger about her “behavior,” her drunk father, that really chill. No wonder the white male writing room wanted her banned.
Picked this up for 50 pence from the wonderful second hand book hut at Jersey Zoo.
The Lonely Girl | 
