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The Country Girls

Edna O'Brien

The groundbreaking debut that set the world alight, from the beloved and multi award-winning author Edna O’Brien. A free art print comes with the book.

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Edna O’Brien wrote more than twenty celebrated works of fiction, including her classic The Country Girls trilogy, as well as plays and four works of non-fiction, which have been translated into over thirty languages. Her final novel Girl was awarded the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year in 2020.

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