a book
The Country Girls Trilogy
Edna O’Brien · 1986
The country is Ireland. The girls are Kate Brady and Baba Brennan. This trilogy tells the story of their escape from countryside and convent out into the world, into the bright city lights of Dublin and, naive and reckless, into a whirl of flirtations and passionate misadventures.
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Erica Jong
“This is a writer who is a woman, a lover, a daughter, a mother and she tries to bring all that together in her work. So few women writers were doing that in the 1960s. Instead, they were writing through a male persona, because they knew that otherwise they wouldn’t be taken seriously. But as O’Brien says, ‘I am the mother of sons; my sons have given me joy. I am a lover of men, and men have broken my heart—but they’ve also given me joy.'”↗