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The Country Girls

By: Edna O'Brien
Narrated by: Edna O'Brien
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It is the early 1960s in a country village in Ireland. Caithleen Brady and her attractive friend, Baba, are on the verge of womanhood and dreaming of spreading their wings in a wider world - of discovering love and luxury and liquor and above all, fun. With bawdy innocence, shrewd for all their inexperience, the girls romp their way through convent school to the bright lights of Dublin – where Caithleen finds that suave, idealised lovers rarely survive the real world.

©2010 AudioGO Ltd (P)1960 Edna Gebler Contemporary Fiction Genre Fiction Fiction
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I read this years ago and loved it but the authors reading has brought it to life more than I expected and made it a more compulsive book. I’ll listen to the other two books in the series too.

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I'm returning this after about an hour of listening. The narrator has a breathy, unusual cadence that is irritating, and some of the characters are just awful and I can't stand them enough to find out what happens.

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.